Much as I admire the piece, the detailed naturalism of Elliott's production downplays the comedy that Matthew Warchus found in his 2004 National Theatre revival and slows the pace: every leak in the roof and overhead footstep is minutely registered.
Early the next morning, Wright and Train awoke to footsteps overhead.
He heard her footsteps overhead for a while, then it went quiet.
As soon as she walks through the front door she hears his footsteps overhead.
The lawsuit lists the offending sounds as telephones ringing, toilets flushing, doors opening and closing and footsteps overhead.
As I sit at my quiet library desk writing this, I can hear the undercurrent of the building's pipes and HVAC systems, the click-clack of the Scribe overhead book scanner, footsteps from the floor above, doors opening and closing in the hallway, and the various rustlings of my own fidgeting.
When I ventured into the basement (primarily his domain), I heard his quick footstep overhead coming down to monitor my scavenging.
His disapproval or his affection were usually aspects of a floating arrangement of father-notions, largely sonic: footsteps pacing overhead, a voice descending stairs.
By that point, the tubercular Edmund (played by a disconcertingly robust Kyle Soller) has spoken of his mother as "a ghost haunting the past," as Mary's footsteps keep time overhead with the psychic scars of a play to which its distaff lead will return only for the celebrated reverie at its close.
The air is soundless apart from a few planes drifting overhead and the occasional sound of footsteps through one of the little alleys or streets surrounding the property.
I miss the noise of footsteps followed by an ominous crash overhead.
