Max Stafford-Clark directed the world premiere of the play during his tenure as artistic director of the Royal Court, returning to it in 1991 and again just now in a fine Chichester Festival production that has transferred to the Trafalgar Studios 1; the engagement finishes Oct. 29.
All the more reason, then, to try for tickets for the production's brief run in the 98-seat Trafalgar Studio 2, where the Donmar Warehouse has been giving up-and-coming directors their own chance at the main stem via a series of new plays and revivals that are gone in the blink of an eyelid; this engagement, finishing Jan . 28 was sold out before it even opened.
"It's a new industry – celebrity news is a whole new form of entertainment – and it's a huge, booming, fucking money-making industry, so why would it stop?" Stewart has not said anything more, about Pattinson or her gal-palling, and Pattinson hasn't said anything about his "engagement", and Twilight finished years ago, so why are we all drowning in fan fiction, still?
Osbourne's engagement may be finished, but art and friends seem to be perfect for lifting her spirits.
For Heizer the real question is whether the public enthusiasm for the rock will translate into engagement with the finished artwork.
He also understands the fascination of watching a 206-wheel, 300-foot-long trynsportor try to maneuver an object as wide as many streets: "The drivers told me their wheels were scrubbing the curb". For Heizer the real question is whether the public enthusiasm for the rock will translate into engagement with the finished artwork.
After Sinatra finished his engagement, he went to Hollywood.
"I'm long in the tooth," says O'Keefe. "I've seen the 'thud effect' with consultants — they plop down a big report and move on before you've even finished the engagement.
When he finished his engagement with "Streetcar," Bikel starred in Peter Ustinov's hit London play "The Love of Four Colonels," where he caught the eye of another famous director, John Huston, who was in town to complete production on his 1951 classic "The African Queen," starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
Crossed swords identify battles and skirmishes at Bethel, Bull Run, Acquia Creek, Centreville and elsewhere; the absence of later engagements indicates that he finished the map in late July of 1861.
Van Creveld does not quite say so — he is more interested in military strategy than politics — but the widespread faith of the American people and the American political class in air power's potential to win quick victories has been a dangerous delusion, especially when combined with the eagerness of presidents to plan military engagements that will be finished swiftly and with few casualties.
