Le Dernier Caravansérail opens with a vast storm, an army of stage-hands agitating an immense billowing stage-cloth.
With a huge billowing stage-cloth and a loud soundtrack portraying the stormy river and refugees arguing with smugglers on either bank, the refugees hold desperately onto a rope -- one traveler is lost -- as they make the perilous crossing.
The stage floor-cloth suggests sand.
The background was painted on two flats, called shutters, which met at the centre of the stage; and cloths that could be rolled up were occasionally used.
Total Union would be an inevitable by-product, but at every stage, the cloth-brained peoples of Europe would have to be told it was only this-far, no further.
Covering the back of the stage with a white cloth, he instantly created an unobstructed backdrop for his dances.
In the final moments she sinks limply onto the floor as Mr. Cerrudo, standing with his back to the audience at the front of the stage, lifts a black cloth, pulling it over her body until she disappears from view.
The whole tribe launches into "Let the Sun Shine In", and as they exit, they reveal Claude lying down center stage on a black cloth.
On the funeral evening, a scheduled performance of The Bartered Bride at the National Theatre was allowed to proceed, the stage draped with black cloth as a mark of respect.
Andrew Burns, who had been managing the equipment throughout the summer tour, had arranged an Oriental rug on the floor of the stage and put African cloths on the amplifiers.
