Ostermeier's production, which runs for two and a half gripping hours without an interval, begins with thunderous drumming and a cacophony of noise.
And cheers echoed over the countryside, as he lunged for the finish in just over six and a half hours, gripping his water bottle and wincing from cramps and physical exhaustion.
And when, just half an hour outside Dublin, I found myself hurtling down one-and-a-half-lane roads, tension gripped my upper body as I negotiated my way around oncoming cars.
The often gruesome four-and-a-half month trial has gripped Canadians, many of whom struggled to comprehend the senseless motive behind the killing.
For three and a half years, the case has gripped Atlanta, which redoubled courthouse security after the murders and spent nearly $1 million on a trial that featured more than 90 witnesses and 900 pieces of evidence.
A century and a half later, Yuanmingyuan holds a similar grip on the China that has inherited its ruins and can forget neither its vanished glory nor its vindictive desecration.
Flood converted to give Tigers the lead from a half they had struggled to get to grips with.
BANGKOK — A nominally civilian government took office in Myanmar on Wednesday but the change was mostly one of political structure as the military, which has ruled for a half-century, maintained its grip on power.
In the wake of Aung San Suu Kyi's victory, the 70-year-old Nobel peace prize winner asked Min Aung Hlaing and current president Thein Sein to discuss a national reconciliation government she intends to form, key talks that she hopes will further reduce a half-a-century military grip on power.
After two and a half hours, needless to say, the bosses emerged and expressed boundless optimism with the gruff air of men in the grip of a half-Nelson.The second surprise, given India's reputation as a land of red-hot start-ups and new entrepreneurs, was the dynastic nature of those captains of industry.
