It consists of a single line of melody applied to the text, without indications of secondary voices, instrumentation or even rhythm but with sketchy staging instructions.
To open the play up, or maybe dust it off, Ms. Lemmons has jettisoned much of the original's inner workings, including its comic shepherds, heavy sermonizing and Hughes's staging instructions.
He wrote his plays for the stage, quickly but with precise stage instructions.
Orton's stage instructions put Kay in her late 20s; other than that Mackichan, 46, is a good fit.
A breakthrough came with the discovery of a folder of lyrics, scripts and stage instructions in 1998.
How, I wondered, was Nunn coping with Stoppard's stage instructions for 'smash cuts' - changes of lighting and scene which have to be instantaneous rather than faded?
I also introduced a piece on breakfast TV, where the stage instructions appeared by mistake on screen, including "councillor Joe Bloggs, far right".
Here, as in other Mussmann pieces, the performers also speak stage instructions and comment on them, jolting the audience briefly and a little coyly back into the present.
They did not stage Lo Dico's narrative directly, however, but created canovacci, or outlines, divided into acts and scenes, with stage instructions and some set speeches.
At the risk of reading the stage instructions, however, let me add that the Volcker parallel may run deeper than most people appreciate.
The students then answered with their own treatments, staging a beloved movie, assigning voice-types to each character, indicating where and what sort of arias would occur, and re-writing one entire scene in verse form, complete with stage instructions.
