Today's balloting was originally expected to be an act of routine validation since it was Mr. Trimble who was credited with conceiving the staged-resignation strategy that helped secure the long-sought Protestant goal of I.R.A. disarmament.
For much of the 20th century this was how the left conceived the first stage of an economy beyond capitalism.
(There were exceptions, as when Cowboy Curtis, played by Laurence Fishburne, told Pee-wee, "You know what they say, big feet... big boots!") Reubens conceived the new stage show as a return to form, but things got tricky.
Ben may be the most phallocentric character ever conceived for the stage.
They conceived of the stage as a cubic volume of space bathed in a continuous play of functioning light.
But whereas these works were conceived for the stage, No's Knife is an adaptation of 13 prose pieces, Texts for Nothing, written by Beckett in the early 1950s.
The Pro Challenge went through Aspen on Wednesday and Thursday, but Armstrong, who first conceived of the stage race with the former governor Bill Ritter in 2009, stayed away.
What came through in this engaging production, with its stylish period costumes and simple, effective sets, was that Monteverdi's operas were truly conceived for the stage.
But, although not conceived for the stage, it adapts perfectly to it in Trevor Nunn's production, which retains Beckett's orchestrated sound effects while giving the actors motion and visibility.
Though there has been an effort to make the production more cinematic (it's nicely filmed by Danny Cohen, who was director of photography on Les Misérables and The King's Speech), London Road still comes across as something conceived for the stage.
The script was conceived for the stage, and Malcolm Venville, the first-time director, hardly bothers to disguise its origins: flashbacks and hallucinations aside, the whole film consists of five men sitting around and talking in one room and one corridor.
