But this book is largely a tick-tock tale of a battle by technocrats against an ever-changing crisis during 2007 and 2008.The core cast is small.
The cast is small, the plot is simple, the tone is vaguely allegorical and a bleak moral is grimly unfurled in the story's closing paragraphs.
Last year some critics got traction with complaints that none of Ms. Dunham's main characters were African-American — even though the cast is small, and mostly made up of insular, middle-class Oberlin alumni living in bohemian Brooklyn.
The cast is small and symmetrical: male and female "choruses" of one, to contextualize and moralize; the title character, a rare female central figure in Britten, and her two attendants; the princely villain Tarquinius and his two comrades.
In perfect imitation of the composer, Mr. Alessandrini tells us that the "cast is small and the stage is odd". This button-hole-size musical is so small that the actors keep bumping into one another while the demon barber savagely wields a Bic throwaway razor.
The cast is small, the sets are few, and not much happens.
(The number of votes cast was small, said school headmaster Roop Kishore Sharma, because the elections were held during the summer holidays).
I miss when the show was more active, when our core cast was smaller and nomadic rather than static.
Casting calls are smaller now, as are the cities in which they are held, where, the thinking goes, the citizens are less jaded.
The staff cafeteria, meant to serve hundreds of cast and crew members, is smaller than a snack bar.
