Like the Greek chorus it comments on the action; like an on-stage telephone conversation in a Noël Coward comedy it pushes the action unpredictably forward.
A key feature of this intervention is the initial care conference to establish a connection between the patient and family member/s and the CCSP to set the stage for telephone follow-up.
In stage II, telephone numbers were sampled randomly, of which the first four digitals were obtained from each PSU's post office as initial number and the other three or four digitals were obtained from random number generated by Excel 2003.
The selected symptoms were based on the results of the stage 1 telephone interviews and included; tiredness/lack of energy; fatigue/extreme tiredness; headache; excessive thirst; dry mouth; frequent urination during the day or night; blurred vision; slow healing of wounds; poor memory; mood swings; difficulty concentrating.
Early experiments with audience involvement included pre-show pranks like an on-stage ringing telephone.
"Do you remember me?" The director, Kate Whoriskey, does a clean, credible job when it comes to staging the telephone exchanges between Mrs. K. and her students.
I stopped by a coffee shop after work and overheard a woman on her lunch break talking to her friend about staging a telephone intervention with her husband.
Our findings show that by retaining core elements of an intervention, such as stage-based telephone counseling on barriers for mammography appointments that effectiveness can be maintained or even improved in a new population.
"In the novel it's possible to go to many different locations in the audience's imagination," said Molly Smith, the artistic director of Arena Stage, in a telephone interview on Thursday.
At the kickoff party in New York Tomlin took the stage as her telephone operator alter ego, Ernestine, and confidently christened (with piggish chortle) WebEx's service "the new ringy-dingy".
