Something in the experimental theater group Elevator Repair Service's new production, Total Fictional Lie , prompted me to use my review as an opportunity to reassess this idea.
Graphics can enrich content rather than serving merely as window dressing.
Collage is, of course, an art form in which material of different types is glued together to create an image. Usually, it produces a message that requires a bit of intuition but rarely much sophistication. As practiced by the Dadaists, it had an exuberant sense of humor that translated into a positive energy in spite of a provenance rooted in pessimism. The approach of Elevator Repair Service strikes me as a collage in which the media of words, music, sound clips and movement are glued together. Juxtaposed notions are not formally rationalized but there is nothing inaccessible about their work.