Though Elizabeth is the chief accomplice in Mary's death, the tragedy belongs to both women, as Mr. Bergman's final tableau makes clear.
The woes of a certain segment of downtown Manhattan pale in comparison to those of many other victims of the storm (relocating guests from the Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park to the one near Central Park is no one's idea of hardship), but they nonetheless provided a vivid New York City tableau all their own: Starchitect-designed towers cleared out.
About half the buildings in Wuzhen are surviving historic structures; a third have been renovated or largely rebuilt using reclaimed historic materials gleaned, typically, from cleared sites in Shanghai; and the rest of the tableau – most obviously in the form of hotels – is newly built.
"Scottsboro" makes clear that the case had taken on the dimensions of a tableau from Russian literature, although the failings that led to the trial were all too American.
Heading up the west fork, for the first mile the clear, chilly water tumbles over sculptured rocks in what is still an urban tableau.
Yet this static tableau concealed a giddy tension, and as the show unfolded it became clear that the Pixies are much better live today than they were the first time around.
Arranged in three separate tableaux, they don't just say, "Look at me!" It's clear they represent deeper feelings.
So the field was cleared by many hands, and several hours later they unearthed a familiar and unlikely tableau: green grass, russet dirt and crisp white lines.
Only gradually does it become clear that the hats are to be worn by prisoners on death row: there follows a tableau of what the stage directions describe as "ragged, beaten, chained prisoners" passing silently across the stage, each wearing a fantastically over-designed piece of millinery.
The opening tableau that depicts bustling crowds at a Shrovetide Fair in St . Petersburgwas not all homogenized and clear-textured, as in better-behaved performances, but a riot of sounds, rhythms, melodic fragments and breathless vitality.
