The plays begin, end and break for intermission in tandem.
We only get 'em when the theatres break for intermission, but we get 'em".
They break for intermission at the same time, and the final curtains come down together.
Nice dramatic arc, too, as the action breaks for intermission during the feast at Alcinous's palace, then builds in the second half, with the eerie sirens singing behind a scrim, culminating in a bitter and devastating trip to Hades.
The plays begin, end and break for intermission in tandem, and they take place during the same time span on a single day, at the same English estate, albeit one in the house and one in the garden.
During a visit to the city a few years ago, Linda Nenno, a former New Yorker now living in Austin, Tex., found herself standing in Times Square, gazing toward the Palace Theater, where a preview of "West Side Story" had just broken for intermission.
This play was revolutionary in style and length: when first produced, it opened in late afternoon, broke for a dinner intermission, and ended at the conventional hour.
In "The Houselights," a ten-page tour de force that concludes the book, a performance of "Macbeth" breaks for intermission, but its foreboding ambience does not.
The plays start at the same time, break for intermission at the same time and are supposed to end at the same time, give or take a few seconds, so that the actors can run back and forth between the two theaters and bow at the same time.
