Switch to Desktop Site  `Warrior Ant': daring mega-theater.
Afro-Caribbean and Japanese motifs in a surprising blend  About
these ads  At a time when stage productions often seem flat and
two-dimensional, director Lee Breuer has devoted a sizable chunk
of his career to cooking up a more spectacular approach. The
latest result of his labor is a show called ``The Warrior Ant,''
ultimately meant to last a dozen hours and take three evenings
to present. Only a few portions of it have been whipped into
final form so far, but they're a rousing entertainment in
themselves - lively, ambitious, and unconventional enough to
make a good opener for this year's edition of the Next Wave
Festival, the avant-garde smorgasbord put on each fall at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).  Second cross-cultural hybrid
Mr. Breuer is fascinated by unlikely combinations, but there's
nothing haphazard about the choices he makes in stirring
ingredients together. His previous Next Wave enterprise, for
instance, was ``The Gospel at Colon