It's a highly internalized journey, one of quiet tension and spare choices.
Simple, even spare choices like Keira Knightley's Edie and Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker's Hank show a trend toward short, straightforward names meant for everyday use.
The details, spare and choice, are often daring: "a white door so overlayed with many generations of soiled and blistered paint that its surface felt like the flesh of a toadstool".
But I'm very fortunate, because in some respects it's easier to be spared the choice.
Like Ms. Hansen, Mr. Barnett goes after the subtle, sophisticated underpinnings of daily life, playing them out on the stage through supple and spare choreographic choices.
Without giving too much away, the director, David Cromer, has made some changes from the original's famously spare staging, choices that have been rewarded by critics' approval and steady business at the box office.
Multi-Choice, the company that owns the show, backed him when he and a commercial radio-news station asked the National Prosecuting Authority and Pistorius's defense team, last July, for permission to broadcast the trial on a spare Multi-Choice channel — 199 on the satellite-TV platform.
Stravinsky's scoring here is remarkably spare, and his choice of timbres — violin, clarinet, bassoon, cornet, trombone, bass and percussion — is tightly fitted to the action in this tale of a soldier who is ensnared by the Devil.
"If you've got a candidate with an hour spare and a choice to go to an old people's home or a sixth-form college, 99 per cent of campaign managers will say you've got to go to an old people's home.
"If you've got a candidate with an hour spare and a choice to go to an old people's home or a sixth-form college, 99% of campaign managers will say you've got to go to an old people's home.
