In the "G-8 Demonstration Oratorio," whose elements include the reading of a descriptive letter from a demonstrator and brief songs and music, the chief elements are a single stage lamp wielded for its atmospheric illumination and sound when scraped along the floor, and the troupe's distinctive papier-mâché puppets, representing the demonstrators.
At the other end of the spectrum, Randles saw a 1930s stage prop lamp going for £100.
Sun Araw soon took the stage alongside Lamp resident Gary, a painter and percussionist.
The probe of the CM-OCT was placed on a translation stage that replaced the lamp holder of the slit-lamp.
Friday finishes with a bedtime story from the comedian Daniel Kitson, on a floating lake stage surrounded by lily lamps providing an atmospheric backdrop for his bittersweet story.
For the exhibition, which has previously traveled around Europe, the Vitra hired the theater designer Robert Wilson to create an ensemble that would represent all facets of Noguchi's enterprise: not only sculpture but also stage props, furniture, paper lamps and models for public parks and monuments.
Liz Garvin, a lighting expert who assisted Mr. Isabell for 18 years, helped him install a web of fiber optics, stage lights and designer lamps controlled by a theatrical console, to conjure up infinite mood variations; when he entered a room, a blaze of lights and music would come on automatically.
There are three seriously large lava lamps at stage left.
The apse was painted black, like a theatre stage, and a lava lamp, from an earlier era, sat unplugged, near the small bandstand.
The theatre stage with its oil lamp footlights is sometimes a real stage with 19th-century flats and sometimes a venue for actual events such as the provincial racecourse where Count Vronsky has his terrible fall.
