Beached

"There is something brutal about Philip Glass’s opera. The way it stops and starts, the taunting tease of a story, then the way it’s anything but narrative. Composed of nine twenty-minute scenes, the whole of Einstein on the Beach — first produced in 1976 and shown in L.A. for the first time this month—is interspersed by five so-called 'knee plays,' in which two women sit or stand or writhe around on plastic platforms, or search dreamily inside gently moving glass boxes. It’s not easy to watch."
The Paris Review
YouTube: Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera, Robert Wilson, Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs discuss Einstein on the Beach, Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs discuss Einstein on the Beach

2010 January: Einstein on the Beach, 2011 May: Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera (1985), 2012 February: Choreographic, Lucinda Childs