This political and moral seriousness went hand in hand, not always easily, with a talent for comedy and unpredictable, incisive dialogue.
Ms. Cohn would later write one of the most emphatic declarations of the play's importance: "After 'Godot,' plots could be minimal; exposition, expendable; characters, contradictory; settings, unlocalized, and dialogue, unpredictable.
The setting is stark; the language is almost purely dialogue, with the unpredictable swerves of actual life and none of its rambling asides, graced by a swiftness of storytelling in a genre in which exposition, often improbable and sometimes belabored, must be provided somewhere before the final line of the final chapter.
But for the audience the experience is a concert by an infectiously passionate singer whose gift for comic innovation is unpredictable and dangerous -- with occasional dialogue laced in to supply a narrative theme.
There is loads of dialogue, fast-moving scenes, unpredictable plots and exclamation marks all over the place – all enlivened by Quentin Blake's fantastically mad and spiky illustrations, of course.
The alert, said a spokesman for North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, had created "an unpredictable atmosphere of tension" under which "smooth dialogue and travel cannot be expected".
Ms. Argerich is an unpredictable pianist, but the performance was also notable for the dialogue and balance between soloist and ensemble, who seemed to understand each other perfectly.
Instead, these amorphous, unpredictable meetings have become open invitations for interest groups and grass roots campaigns to capture the public dialogue.
Completely unpredictable.
