Sweet Fields
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The first few minutes of Pontus Lidberg’s “On the Nature of Rabbits,” confounds the viewer with a series of inexplicable images in quick succession. First Lidberg is seated in repose near a small stuffed rabbit, as if a child in deep contemplation of a beloved toy. But soon Hussein Smko breaks into the serenity of the scene, lumbering across the stage. Odd shapes protrude from Smko’s body, giving his figure a monstrous outline. He dislodges a black water balloon from underneath his shirt and offers it to Lidberg. The balloon is leaky. Colleen Thomas arrives with focused determination, regal and authoritative in a grey satin slip dress, and holds out a glass to catch the liquid leaking out in an arced stream. Spotlights come on and off, illuminating each study in small pools of light.
We are at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan, but we are also in Lidberg’s dream world.
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