In the world of Clement Layes' "Allege," which he performed Saturday night at EMPAC, buckets are worn on the head, tables are as likely to stand on their sides as their legs, and a watering can ...

Clement Layes' solo performance piece "Allege" was inspired in part by watching his 2-year-old daughter play with objects whose names and functions she hadn't yet learned. "It's an age when your ...