In 1975, Glynn Ross, the founding general director of the tiny, 11-year-old Seattle Opera, got the mad notion of mounting Wagner's complete "Ring" tetralogy, uncut, in one week.
So successful have his productions proved both in Sheffield and London that he was recently appointed successor to Sam Mendes as artistic director of the tiny Donmar Warehouse, a Covent Garden theater that itself can claim to have become the pacemaker in the aging heart of the traditional West End.
Richard Averett, finance director for the tiny city of San Carlos, south of San Francisco, said he was preparing for cuts in recreation, senior programs, the library system and police protection.
But from 1982 to 1989, he was the co-artistic director of a tiny subterranean stage grandly named The West Bank Café Downstairs Theatre Bar.
Samuel Keller, director of the Beyeler Foundation, spilled a tiny bit more: The show is named after a 1944 book by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte, an account of World War II from behind the German lines.
Hall does not now have his own theatre but is currently working in Denver on a 10-play cycle about the Trojan Wars, and has also been collaborating with one of the country's most gifted young directors - Mick Gordon of the tiny Gate Theatre.
Willow Weilan Hai Chang, the gallery director, stood in a corner of the tiny two-room exhibition space, talking about that philosopher and his influence on Chinese society.
The camera was by itself in the cold and the dark for 16 hours a day, operated by Giddings and the director, each wedged inside one of the tiny submarines.
To complete the board, and add what appears to be another layer of secrecy, Centre Services recruited two further directors from the tiny neighbouring Channel island of Sark.
Britain's hopes reside largely, once again, in Mike Leigh, one of the tiny elite of British directors considered by Cannes to be proper auteurs.
The lopsidedness is "extraordinarily tiny," Dr. Jonathan Dorfan, the director of the center, said at a meeting of physicists here.
