concept
Komicheskaya Strannost
comic oddity
also: комическая странность, comic oddity/strangeness
A mock-genre subtitle parodying the elaborate, grandiose descriptors Lentovsky's spectacular Moscow productions favored -- extravaganzas billed with a cascade of acts, scenes, prologues, and processions promising more stagecraft than plot.
Reading notes
- Chaos in Rome §2 COMIC ODDITY
"Комическая странность" (comic oddity/strangeness) parodies the elaborate genre subtitles Lentovsky's spectacular Moscow productions favored -- extravaganzas billed with a cascade of grandiose descriptors (acts, scenes, prologues, processions) promising more stagecraft than plot.