The stage directions alone are an exercise in complexity: The script includes lines meant to sound clear, lines meant to sound garbled, lines signed and not spoken, lines spoken and not signed, lines with subtitles projected around the theater and lines without subtitles.

WSJ: David Cromer's 'Tribes': A Director Reveals His Motivation

The muddled income-tax system, you see, and this week's garbled changes to it, are a subterfuge: not so much prudence for a purpose as complexity for the cause, ho ho.

ECONOMIST: Toil and muddle