With two meal breaks, one for dinner and one for dessert, the night will clock in at about five hours.
There are two meal breaks per shift, each of an hour, during which people may take a nap.
At the Pace University campus in Lower Manhattan, the city took the unusual step of closing the main cafeteria altogether for two meal periods last month, touching off a student boycott when it reopened.
Adel Ali, chief executive and founder of Air Arabia, said in an interview that no-frills flying benefits consumers: It lets travelers decide what and when to eat, for example, rather than being served at a time specified by the airline with only one or two meal options, he said.
Mr. Stein tossed aside Albert Camus's prior stage version to create his own exhaustively thorough adaptation, which clocked in at more than nine hours of stage time, and was performed with two meal breaks and four intermissions on Saturday and Sunday to sold-out and attentive audiences.
There are three intermissions and two meal breaks, as well as a few food vendors, portable toilets and a medieval-style tent or two to promote a local preservation society or battle re-enactment group — a spartan setup on what Mr. Bagnall calls "sacred ground".
