Imagine a hall in which all the figures who have appeared on bank notes over the years have gathered.
Nunn had frequently hitchhiked the 20 miles from Coventry to Stratford-upon-Avon to catch the productions of the nascent RSC, founded the year before by Peter Hall; little did he imagine that Hall, 10 years older, would pay a return visit and ask him to jump ship.
But you would have to be terribly myopic to imagine the hall dedicated to heterosexual romance: sturdy, naked, hyper-phallic young lads frolic above and around the wedding parties, warning of bestial Greek tragedy if the newlyweds -- presumably represented by a young lady and a fisherman at the back of the hall -- do not tend each other with care.
Imagine the Barbican Hall as a bedroom.
With its dotty wordplay and tenuous skits about flying saucers, dancing dons and comedy coppers, "It's as I imagine the music hall might have been," says Bankes-Jones.
Imagine a great hall of fetishes where whatever you felt like fucking or being fucked by, however often your tastes might change, no matter what hardware or harnesses were required, you could open the gates and have at it on a comfy mattress at any time of day.
More intriguing was Laurence Crane's Movement for 10 Musicians, a slow succession of sweet and piquant chords that took on their own suspended beauty; imagine an empty hall that has seen 1,000 Beach Boys concerts, yielding up all its ghostly echoes at once.
Now while he technically fits the rule that excluded Jack Sherman, as a member who was not terribly well known, it is hard to imagine that the Hall would have automatically inducted Stewart if it were not for the band's intervention.
The tour guide told me that I wouldn't be able to see the university's huge freshman dining hall as it was closed for the day, but to just imagine Hogwarts's Great Hall in its place.
Who knows where it all comes from?" Imagine Gallery, Hall Street, Long Melford, Suffolk.
