Some inmates started writing to Wertenbaker, telling her how much the chance to act had meant to them – and, not long after the premiere of Our Country's Good, one asked to stage the play at HMP Blundeston in Suffolk.
So when, in Joshua Oppenheimer's extraordinary documentary The Act of Killing, Congo is asked to stage re-enactments of the executions of Indonesian communists in which he participated in the 1960s, the results are cinematic: pure film noir, in fact.
At the Museum of Modern Art, which has focused heavily on performance art over the past few years, Ms. Knowles was asked to stage a series of the lunches, which she considers enactments of an "event score," a loose, improvisation-friendly script that became a hallmark of Fluxus.
(Reuters World Briefingg A5 ARTS E1-8 Opera Going Hollywood Placido Domingo, the new artistic director of the Los Angeles Opera, said that George Lucas's special effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, would design a version of "The Ring" and that filmmakers would be asked to stage some operas.
In 1962 he was asked to stage a gala at Madison Square Garden to celebrate John F Kennedy's 45th birthday, and he put together a remarkable combination of talents including Jack Benny, Ella Fitzgerald, Maria Callas, Danny Kaye, Henry Fonda, Bobby Darin, Peggy Lee and Jimmy Durante, but the most memorable moment was when Marilyn Monroe appeared (Adler's idea) to sing "Happy Birthday, Mr President".
Soon Dylan's keyboardist asked to stage a rock night on Tuesdays, and that's when things started to get crazy.
In 1822 Sir Walter Scott, a romantic novelist, was asked to stage-manage George IV's visit to Edinburgh.
Or, as Richard Dawkins has said when asked to share a stage with various creationist brainwrongs, it looks better on your CV than mine.
The children were presented with standard pictures showing the pubertal Tanner staging [ 16] and asked to indicate which stage best referred to their own pubertal stage.
Asked to compare stage and film acting, he said: "Theater is pure, while movies are bits and pieces.
He was also asked to do stage designs for the queen of Poland, Maria Casimira, in her theatre in the Zuccari Palace in Rome, and for the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I for the opera Giunio Bruto.
