That includes Nathaniel (Rob Campbell), the director; Jen (Ana Reeder), the production's infinitely vulnerable leading lady; and Christmas (Daniel Eric Gold), who is gay, dyslexic and full of gung-ho enthusiasm.
But, although Bill Kenwright's new production is infinitely superior to the over-inflated original, I still can't warm to a musical that asks me to believe six impossible things before suppertime.
Imagine now an economic world in which big-ticket factors of production are infinitely scalable at almost zero cost.
Previous research on coordinating the supply chain with price-sensitive demand often assumes that either the supplier purchases the product or the supplier has an infinitely large production rate.
Through his stagings of several of Chekhov's other plays, Dyadya Vanya (1897; Uncle Vanya), Tri sestry (1901; Three Sisters), and Vishnyovy sad (1904; The Cherry Orchard), Stanislavsky developed a style of infinitely detailed production, the result of long and methodical rehearsals, to achieve an almost perfect surface naturalism with great emotional complexity beneath.
But along comes Anthony Page's infinitely nuanced production of the play, at the Old Vic Theatre through Nov. 27, and what could seem a study in giddy self-absorption widens into something deeper, stranger, and every bit as glistening: A portrait of a ménage a trois — creative types all — who make it their job to laugh in the face of the dreary void some people call life.
With the intensification of the marketization of manufacturing, the production resources are not infinitely usable, and the processing time of each process alone is not always the same.
But is infinite information infinitely valuable?
It's a production in which less means infinitely more: a scene in which Carolyn Dobbin's Penelope is proprietorially pawed by the suitors is deeply unsettling without being remotely explicit.
Now, seeing it in Jeremy Herrin's infinitely superior Royal Court production, I am far more impressed by its subtle dissection of what Auden called "public faces in private places" and its demonstration of the dangers of divorcing politics from psychology.
