As Mr. Noble recites an introduction reminiscent of "The Twilight Zone" and "The Outer Limits" — "Your screen may soon be filled with dramatized stories of scientific research that some may find controversial and disturbing" — to the keening strains of what sounds like a theremin, his deep, sinister, stage-trained voice is a perfect fit for the surroundings.
But, why oh why, has Mr. Prowse (also the production's designer) surrounded them with sinister, atmospheric stage fog and arranged them as if they were figures on a mantelpiece?
To put it a less sinister way, the stage's mountains were mere appetizers for Sunday, with four first-category and two second-category climbs, and for Monday, with three fourth-category and one first-category climbs capped by two rated beyond category.
When Viktor was first shown in London, in 1999, it was, as I remember, dirtier, and the soft patter of earth hitting the stage more sinister.
Jonah is as much of a liar as a loner, which gives this section some sinister shadows, but this stage of the story is still repetitive and quiet.
With this loss goes the sinister evocation of off-stage forces.
She and Gaskill took their style to Stratford for Richard III (with Christopher Plummer, 1961), set on a wooden floor and backed by a sinister metal grille, and staged the British premiere of Brecht's Baal (1963), framing Peter O'Toole in a cyclorama enclosing beautifully stylised bare trees and gappy buildings.
Soon sinister types converge on the stage, and a pattern of male domination begins.
What I'm doing is theatre, and only theatre … What you see on stage isn't sinister.
Like Jack Skeleton from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, he glides across the stage with a sinister elegance, his voice as slick and velvety as his swinging black tailcoat.
