I replied that this was only the premise of the arduous stage of entrenching and assuring peace.
At least Hall had a bank of productions on which to draw when he began the arduous, stage-by-stage process of occupying the still-incomplete Lasdun-designed National theatre in the spring of 1976.
Commenting on his withdrawal, Hurt said: "I have recently been in hospital with an intestinal complaint and although I am much improved and on the road to a full recovery, my doctors have advised that it is too soon for me to undertake a lengthy and arduous stage role.
Yet as open government advocate Daniel Schuman noted in a post on Medium, CRS reports already go through "an arduous, multi-stage review process because they know the reports will become publicly available".
In its genial, somewhat amateurish way - the user is guided through the landscape of words, photographs and film clips by the cartoon double of Marker's own beloved cat, Guillaume - the CD-Rom stages the arduous and happenstance unfolding of a life as much as a career.
Both programs have taken long and arduous paths to this stage of the postseason, but one victory can provide the relief each is seeking.
He left Britain in a Sunderland flying boat and embarked on an arduous two-week, multi-stage flight via Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria (where he was delayed by the Anglo-Iraqi War), Basra, Karachi and Rangoon, where he was met by an RAF transport.
Putting together teams can be arduous, whether for movies or stage musicals, but the front-end development costs for musicals tend to be far lower, often in the hundreds of thousands of dollars compared with millions for movies.
But what did interest him was the world of dance and the contradiction between what is seen on the stage and the arduous physical process, the physical humiliations of the dancers.
This arduous journey, which at one stage saw one of his legs paralysed, took him 550 days.
