After intermission, the
deus ex machina of the modern stage (disease) dropped its other shoe and we learned that Linda has survived lymphoma.
TORONTO A Harbourfront Centre presentation of a
Deus Ex Machina production of a play in two acts by Robert Lepage, with the collaboration of Adam Nashman.
The story revolves around a Ziegfeld-style producer who's losing his leading lady to marriage, the gangsters who have invested in the show and don't like losing their star one bit, the shady Latin lover brought in to seduce the bride away who falls instead for her chaperone, the chorine who finally gets her big break and an aviatrix ("or feminist, as she's called now"), who serves as a
deus ex machina.
Briefly, "Cherry" has dim -- very dim -- shades of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Arthur," with an inevitable dose of
deus ex machina in a climactic wedding sequence.
All the boomer-friendly elements are here: The warmly upscale Manhattan and Hudson Valley abodes, the ever-perplexing conflict between super-momdom and nifty career, the adorably smart kids tossed about by divorce, the lack of any money problems, the middle-aged dad angst-ridden over having dumped same-aged wife for hot young babe, and a
deus ex machina in the form of a fatal disease that triggers some noble suffering and emotional focusing all around.
Before long the original text is happily abandoned again, as the show grabs an ending out of thin air, courtesy of a certain multibillionaire cast as
deus ex machina.
Ball and screenwriter T S Nowlin keep a tight grip on the tone and the relentless pace, but they often back the story and characters into corners that only a
deus ex machina can fix.
Sci-fi computers have a habit of turning on their human creators, and while Skynet is probably the most iconic vision of the singularity, the Matrix and its
Deus Ex Machina is another horrifying vision of our future.
Terms such as agency are well illustrated, while others, such as
deus ex machina and related fictitious terms, have confusing, abstract definitions in conflict with the classics.
Stringham explains that the
deus ex machina plot device "is named for Greek plays that used gods played by actors suspended on cranes to suddenly solve characters' problems" In many social science and policy debates, he writes, "theorists think of potential problems and assume government can solve them" Those who advocate government enforcement rarely explain why they think that governments will have the incentives or the information to do their job well.
In classical Greek tragedies,
deus ex machina was a divinity appearing on the scene at the end of the play (descending from a wooden crane -- the machina) to provide a solution to the deadlock that the play had been led into.
Esplendida por las obras que contiene y muy sugerente como proyecto curatorial, la exposicion
Deus ex machina.
While the device employed is actually quite satisfactory, it is both too closely linked to the
deus ex machina and, consequently, naggingly incomplete.
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In ancient performances
deus ex machina involved a real machina, specifically a crane.
