We could find ourselves scuppered by our own staging device.
But Pegasus is a three-stage device designed for much larger satellites than RASCAL's jet will carry.
(An extended brawl begins as a familiar stage device but goes on so long that it flips into stranger territory).
Many of Berio's favourite writers - Auden, Shakespeare, Barthes - reappear in his next opera, Un Re In Ascolto, which is a reinterpretation of the stage-within-a-stage device.
"Va Savoir" is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama, and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.
An important stage device used in tragedy during the 5th century bce was the crane (mēchanē), which served to fly in the gods (deus ex machina) at the end of the play.
On the morning of November 8, a two-stage device inside a Blue Danube case was successfully detonated at 2,200 metres (7,200 feet) over Christmas Island, with a yield calculated at 1.8 megatons.
(This is Balanchine's adaptation of an old 19th-century staging device in the Danish production of "La Sylphide," which he had seen earlier in the 1930s in his time in Copenhagen: there the sylph, on point, steps from the window onto a small panel — it should look as if she's standing on thin air — that floats her sweetly down to the ground).
Such is 'our' Bryn's rapport with his home-crowd audience that it seems entirely appropriate that he is lifted aloft, on wires, at the end; with another baritone in the role (Roberto de Candia, for instance, who takes over after 20 March), this will look like the contrived stage device that it is, demeaning to the rest of a polished ensemble.
Being herded like disco sheep can be annoying but it's a clever staging device: as you're surrounded by and involved in the action, it becomes more difficult to judge or be critical of the characters – dancing with Imelda (played with almost unparalleled sweetness by Ruthie Ann Miles) makes you more likely to sympathise with her and her husband Jose Llana, despite knowing better.
