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May. 1 - May. 2, 1981
Grand Mal is a hallucinatory, discordant drama, an extravagant and sinister fable of postmodern cultural malaise. Oursler's obsessional themes and morbid visions of religion, sex and death unravel in a fragmented narrative of fear, horror, delirium and humor. His fantastic theater of the absurd is propelled by a series of thematic dialectics - heaven and hell, good and evil, life and death that are rendered with remarkable inventiveness and originality. The narrative's expressionistic visual dream-space is permeated with an eerie sense of displacement and disorientation, which is echoed in Oursler's layered sound collage and somnambulant narration.