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As the fog billows up just outside a set of sliding glass doors, the audience witnesses a purely-Kubrick moment. A cosmonaut, in illuminated helmet, carefully explores a suburban patio to the swelling strings of a symphony. But for as forcefully as that image appears, all of the illusion is harshly stripped away as the performer begins to speak. The cosmonaut is not some surrealist science-fiction character, he is our proxy on stage, exploring the environs of the stage to help ground the scene. As jarring as this would seem, L'Effet de Serge presents this action as though it were the most natural beginning to a performance. For this is a show about performance; about its creation, its delivery, and its reception.