Their doctors' reluctance to participate doesn't matter to the duo's patients, though, who travel from far-flung parts of India, even voyaging from other countries, including Japan and the United States, to be "cured".
Here, by contrast, they play out their vaudeville routines against a backdrop of espionage, cold war intrigue and even a voyage to the Moon.
He went on to say that even if "Voyage to the Sonorous Land," originally scheduled for January, was not a piece of propaganda, a performance would lend the playwright visibility.
Speaking at the 243rd National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, he said that devices with these chips could retain data despite an accidental trip through the drier or even a voyage to Mars.
Letts himself, however, admits that, even having voyaged extensively through Ra's back catalogue, "a lot of the music goes right over my head.
Kuusisto conceived the evening as a voyage towards Britten's 1943 masterpiece, and if one or two items felt like detours, there was no gainsaying the journey's frequent fascination.
The band of the 304th Engineers gave concerts on deck every evening on the voyage home to entertain the men.
Even so, the voyage remained a grueling test of endurance.
Maybe even a QE2 voyage with assorted columnists.
Kelly's One-Year Mission represents a kind of dress rehearsal for a longer, straighter, and even more punishing voyage.
