During the recent staging of a play about the end of a regime, actors were visited at their homes by police; this was deeply sinister intimidation.
At Buxton it's being presented in a double bill with MTW's recent staging of Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs For A Mad King; in the autumn The Killing Flower will embark on a tour of its own.
Then there are the MTV Music Awards, being held in this Unesco City of Music for the first time, partly in recognition of the successful recent staging of a trio of Mobo Awards.
Pieces of the "Ring" machine, the problem-plagued device that served as a set in the most recent staging of these four Wagner operas, were stored here after it was disassembled in May; other components were sent to a climate-controlled warehouse in Newburgh, N.Y.
A good example would be his recent staging of Me 1 vs Me 2 Snooker at a performance art event in Hackney, which was dubbed "an excruciating experience of unbearable length" by Incident Magazine amid several walk-outs.
Now Borodin's opera, a mythic tale of early Russia which few in the West have ever heard before, is back: the Metropolitan Opera, for the first time in ninety-eight years, will mount the work (beginning Feb. 6), in a production by the daring young director Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose recent staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Czar's Bride" was a hit in Berlin.
Yet it remains drama, not drama therapy - though this can be admirable in itself, as the recent staging of Grimm's fairy tales in a Gloucestershire youth camp by a group of Israeli and Arab kids showed.
Much as I detest that overused adjective "awesome," it seems an appropriate word to describe the Canadian director Robert Lepage's recent staging of Wagner's "Ring" cycle at the Metropolitan Opera.
And "What Jane Saw," which went live just before midnight London time on Thursday, can be seen as a scholarly answer to extravagant bicentennial reanimations like the Netherfield ball, the BBC's recent staging of the dance where Darcy and Elizabeth shared some pivotal banter.
The magazine, which is published by a fund-raising affiliate of the Met, is responding to the Met's objections to negative critiques of its recent staging of Wagner's "Ring" cycle and its approach to opera productions.
Much of the strength of Ian Rickson's recent staging of that play came from its grasp of this paradox, from its sense that life is too funny to be sad, and vice versa.
