...- emcee in top hat and bright blue coat sionally going too far with it, over the signals for their attention. A few words border into schmaltzland, but not too of welcome, he cues a blackout...

... Laurent 45 laurent bald, pot-­bellied emcee with red lipstick (played by Lionel Codino) in I Tremble paints an irresistibly sexy figure. He’s sweet and gentle, and we want to trust him, but we also can’t quite overlook that he behaves like a dangerous...

... of the Variety’s performance. The tradi- tional red-tuxedoed emcee (a spokesman for officialdom, for reality as it should be per- 14 poland’s old and new masters ceived) implores the spectators to adhere to his version of events while the Variety’s “guest artists...

.... The atmosphere’s illicit even before, as Weiss likes to say in his emcee role, “the plot sickens.” Sneaky. Underground. Most of all, perhaps, in existing so far outside the conventions of the culture industry. No reviews, no 8 x 10 glossies posted in the theater, no Equity...

... . . . Gunn continues to have a vexed relationship with the economics of the art world, an acknowledged ambivalence that has only become more felt as the artist increasingly receives fewer and fewer commissions from major international institutions. The video, The Emcee, plays. susan In The Emcee, she...

... supposedly turned their backs on the neo-Nazi scene and entered a mentoring project created for them. This is where Hamlet ends, and, accordingly, Schlingensief, as Fortinbras in SS uniform, mounts the stage as a hybrid emcee-director. He gives the signal...

...: a presentational, revue- like form of skits strung together by an emcee; song and dance; intense physicality; burlesque humor. But playing at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg last year during the elections, Jozi Jozi heralded the “New South Africa’’ with an irreverence and a satirical cynicism as far from...

... stand assuming the guise of a bird, the en- mercial breaks and interruptions by the conceive each play along with outside tire notion of flight and freedom was emcee and a professional psychologist, who authors, musicians, technicians, and au- visually realized. Veronica takes a trip, but do...

... rules slightly. We spent a total of about ten weeks in Houston, meeting people who introduced us to people, who introduced us to the right people to work with as staffers. One of them is a neighborhood activist, one is a real estate broker, hip-­hop emcee, and former reality tv star, one...

... the outside world and ning, something feels out of tune. Nils, the you get retuned to the rhythm of the perfor- emcee of the convention, is trying to play the mance. It is slow and makes you fall asleep entertainer, but he is performing this detuned eventually. Through this strong and slow...

... a series of whimsically informa- tive lectures, punctuated by variety acts and the musings Chautauqua! p.s. 122, of the evening’s gaunt, sneering emcee, Richard “Dick...

... a series of whimsically informa- tive lectures, punctuated by variety acts and the musings Chautauqua! p.s. 122, of the evening’s gaunt, sneering emcee, Richard “Dick...

... a series of whimsically informa- tive lectures, punctuated by variety acts and the musings Chautauqua! p.s. 122, of the evening’s gaunt, sneering emcee, Richard “Dick...

...-trash, her hustler sidekick, smooth and rubber bodied, impersonat- ing a seedy nightclub emcee in a tacky Italian resort, then joining her in a show- stopping take on a Euro-rock song-and-dance act. A not quite young, somewhat sinis- ter homeless man (Martin Wuttke), perhaps a refugee from Castorf ’s...