obliqueness

In an introductory author’s note, she says her goal is “to tell stories in what I regard as the most honest way possible: by accepting language’s inherent obliqueness and using it to the story’s advantage.”

As much as this new show is about making something with a clear narrative, she still clings to the power of obliqueness.

Tanowitz’s choreography treats both the text and the music with similar obliqueness.

There’s an intentional obliqueness, the traces of a narrative that are blurred and contorted by the characters.

Perhaps Cin felt that the obliqueness would create tension, but it mainly disorients the reader.