Above all, there is Jack O'Brien's supple direction that beautifully sustains the restless but easy flow of the action.
Josie Rourke's direction is beautifully spare and Tom Scutt's design, dominated by the image of a bifurcated and encased tree, reflects the divisions within the characters.
In response, scholars moved in the opposite direction, developing a beautifully logical but extremely difficult version of the language.
You can see him tending in that direction with his beautifully frank setting of Walt Whitman's "To What You Said," from the 1977 cycle "Songfest".
This alone makes it an extraordinary work, but it's the way that these aesthetic elements come together with beautifully subtle direction and storytelling to create a lasting emotional effect that elevates this to one of the very best games of our time.
But his gorgeous, beautifully composed direction and committed performers ensure that it's far from dull.
The ideas and questions proliferate and spawn others as the curtain comes down on Nielsen's pained and profound performance, on Mac's script, and on Smith's direction, a trinity of beautifully youthful, experimental efforts that remind one of the freshness of the art they were all born out of so long ago.
Under Mark Lamos's beautifully detailed direction, the actors actually seem to inhabit a world where $100 is a lot of money, America's last big military conflict was the Great War, Greta Garbo is a babe, and Pearl Harbor might be a Caribbean resort.
Fine acting (especially by Jean-Pierre Richard, as an anti-Semitic drama critic), restrained direction, and Nestor Almendros's beautifully muted color cinematography lead smoothly to a satisfying, appropriately theatrical conclusion.
