To discuss: In an optional session of a Northwestern course on human sexuality, a man brought a woman to climax, on stage, using a contraption called a "fucksaw".
For most of the show's 90-minute running time the performers alternate on the small stage, a charming-cheapo contraption featuring a trompe l'oeil backdrop of a classical proscenium that looks as if it's been left to molder for a while.
She was transfixed when Mr. Jaramillo took the stage alongside a custom-made contraption created from microphone tripods and multiple rows of guitar pedals.
Even when that big contraption at center stage is uncovered and shifted, by a team of black-clad stagehands, to reveal the shabby rooftop digs where the first act takes place, things still look pretty bleak, with chilly, nouvelle vague lighting that brings to mind those midwinter moments when life feels like a black-and-white movie.
I quickly grabbed a spot in the middle of the movie style seating and noticed a strange contraption on the stage at the front of the class.
Here, the new Cherokee drove across a series of stylized boulder-esque contraptions mounted to the stage and into real life as Mike Manley, Jeep's chief executive, introduced it.
The rock audience had never seen her like: a beautiful young woman, perched on a chair at the lip of a nightclub stage, plinking the 47 strings of a contraption 10 times as large as a Gibson Les Paul.
Mutoid Waste Company have built a huge contraption on top of the Pyramid Stage which may well do something remarkable at the end of the set.
In a worn, paint-stained Oxford, Foulkes climbs onto the stage and settles in behind his homemade, one-man-band contraption, "The Machine," a sculptural configuration of cow bells, drums, organ pipes, antique car horns and hoses, among other things.
At "Wicked," the crew had to put water in the bubble-making contraption that carried the actress Annaleigh Ashford across the stage before her opening line, which took on multiple meanings: "It's good to see me, isn't it?" So it went last night, on an unusual kind of opening night on Broadway.
