It will be suspended just a few metres from the wall it was cast from and lit so that it becomes translucent.
It casts a pall on everything from the teaching of evolutionary biology to stem cell research to thoughts on biblical Armageddon in the Middle East.
The results are hard to forecast: "The Graduate" suffered when it cast Lorraine Bracco, from The Sopranos, one of the most beloved shows on television, while "Rent" benefited from the addition of Joey Fatone, who isn't even the most famous member of N Sync, a slowly fading pop group.
"Romeo," which doesn't really include a Romeo and has only the most fleeting reference to Shakespeare, is the first movie that looks as if it was cast from the rap magazine The Source due to its relatively chaste marriage of hip-hop and kung fu.
Fortunately, in Thea Sharrock's production, it is cast from strength.
As I think back on the two women headlining a 1984 West End run of the Restoration-era vintage comedy, "The Way of the World," that seems entirely a product of a now-vanished age, not least because a commercial run of a play of that sort these days would seem impossible unless it were cast from reality TV.
It is cast from an original sculpture by American artist Gutzon Borglum, which he used as a model for the face of Roosevelt blasted into Mt. Rushmore.
Several relief monoprints -- including one made from alphabet soup -- are in his first New York solo show, but the main work is figurative sculpture, all of it cast in fiberglass from the artist's body and painted plaster white.
The prospect of wrestling losing its status had been described as a "crisis" by the burly Serbian wrestling federation president Nenad Lalovic, who was brought in to radically overhaul the sport's presentation and governance after the IOC decided in March that it should be cast from its gilded tent.
In 1994, when the microphones were released, one trade magazine wrote, "extremely nice sounding mic, not likely to get stolen," while another wrote that it looked as though it had been "cast from an Aeroflot tea trolley".
