But as is often the case with Brecht's work, the intellectual stimulation provided by the dialectics doesn't always make up for the lack of vitally engaging theatrical drama.
And yet that's not true of Mr. Zavarov (who has danced, among other roles here, Apollo) or of both Russell Clarke and Shea Johnson, who both made the Phlegmatic variation of "Temperaments" more vitally engaging than it has been in decades.
"Disgraced," which opened on Monday night at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater in a sleek production directed by Kimberly Senior, is a continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world, with an accent on the incendiary topic of how radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires have affected the public discourse.
Charles Isherwood of The New York Times, who saw the Off-Broadway production in 2012, said it was "a continuously engaging, vitally engaged play" that "bristles with wit and intelligence" and "puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another".
As a rule, though, Ms. Makarova elicits far less vitally engaged performances.
Weiner, a pioneer of language-based art, appears in finest fettle in his first U.S. retrospective: intelligent, provocative, allusive, and, for all his insistence on the word, vitally engaged with visual pleasure.
He's a rare thing - an athlete who, when rumbled, didn't deny it and now is genuinely and vitally engaged in the war to get drugs out of sport.
For these parents, it's vitally important to engage in that mourning process, so that they can move on, put their expectations behind them, and try to raise the child they actually have.
However, engagement remains vitally important: pharmacists who engaged in a discussion about anaphylaxis with the patient, also demonstrated a greater preparedness for anaphylaxis emergencies.
Will Pomroy, policy lead at the National Association of Pension Funds, said: "It is vitally important that companies engage with their shareholders.
However, it is vitally important that nurses engaged in this role receive adequate training and ongoing support [ 5, 7].
