The designer Bunny Christie has created a black graph-paper box of a set that suggests provisional order imposed on infinite darkness.
It is less successful in quieter moments, however, when the actors' energy is muted by Laura Hopkins's enclosing white box of a set.
The search takes place in a cryptic candy box of a set, which includes collages of fashion photography, neo- classical engravings mounted on newspapers, striped track hurdles, industrial-size trash bins and what appears to be a giant detonator.
Donyale Werle's dream box of a set is all sooty shadows in the first act and music-hall paradise sunshine in the second (with matching lighting by Jeff Croiter and witty, period-scrambling costumes by Paloma Young).
Performed in the downstairs space of the Flea Theater on a bare, black box of a set, with a jazz trio on the side and a 10 p.m. starting time, the show rekindles a sense of adventure that is too often missing in today's theater.
Performed at 10 p.m. on a bare black box of a set in a downtown basement and with the excellent jazz trio of William Connell Jr., Jeremy Blunn and Ian Riggs playing bebop and progressive on the side, the show rekindles the spirit and excitement of the old after-hours avant-garde.
But, even when he's not directing himself, he's a frequent visitor wherever "Key and Peele" is filming, which, on the day we spoke, happened to be a standard-issue black box of a set, deep within the Universal Studios complex.
The same 19th-century work, which is at the Louvre, then appears as a ceiling for the otherwise dull and colorless square box of a set that serves all the scenes in the opera.
It serves exquisitely presented fusion food in a glass box of a restaurant set in a garden.
Of course, the production imposes a visible structure on the work, with Neil Patel's indigo-blue dream-box of a set and the moody wash of Jennifer Tipton's lighting.
