On this particular day, however, the edge that Markus was playing was a literal edge that separated him and his bike from a sixty foot drop off the side of a mountain.
"The Post-Birthday World" plays a more literal game, alternating between two story lines, one in which the protagonist stays with her partner of almost a decade and one in which she leaves him for a famous snooker player.
Space to sound off David Byrne gave one of the best concerts of the year so far at the Royal Festival Hall in April, but in a fortnight the former Talking Heads frontman is to go one bigger, if not one better, by actually "playing a venue" in a very literal sense.
'SECOND SIGHT' (BBC, 1999-2000) = 'SECOND SIGHT' (CBS) A series of four feature-length stories, "Second Sight" takes a staple premise of the modern British crime drama — arrogant male detective paired with young, headstrong female subordinate — and plays a clever, if literal-minded, game with it.
For her, the barricades – both figurative and literal – played a role not merely as part of the battle to preserve one of the oldest parts of Manhattan, but in her entire analysis of the urban economy.
Mr. McElroen's production turns the play into a literal circus.
The production, which turns the play into a literal circus, is not always coherent.
The ocean, the exhibition reminds us, became in Shakespeare's plays both "a literal setting and metaphor for instability".
The play begins to feel like a "walks into a bar" joke: a gay German, a Russian prostitute, a Southern Bible-thumper and a Puerto Rican actress walk into a cafe.... Artificial or not, however, the play has a literal and figurative jolt that's undeniable.
Even so, they do have something small to play for in their final match as Chivas: they'll play San Jose in a literal bottom of the table clash for a chance to avoid finishing last in the West.
