In fact a playwright who's alive and kicking is often far more willing to accept the idea that a text is a suggestion of a performance and doesn't have to determine the performance – far more so than those estates charged with protecting the legacies (and income stream) of dead playwrights.
Dongxin Xu gave suggestions on performance improvement.
GAUGES The Smiths gauge offers only vague suggestions of actual performance.
The performance of QRISK2-2011 and its predecessor QRISK2-2010 are comparable, with no suggestion of deterioration in performance.
But with a couple of exceptions (notably two longstanding company members, Elise Stone as Moll, the prostitute, whose performance has a lovely, plaintive quality, and Craig Smith as Mr. Mister, whose potency has just the slightest suggestion of puncturablility), the performances come across as glib.
The therapeutic strategies used to manage brain herniation were recorded: medical treatments (heavy sedation with barbiturates, use of osmotherapy) and the suggestion and performance of salvage decompressive hemicraniectomy.
Perhaps Steven Hamper from Chatham, as much as he would hate the suggestion, is a kind of performance artist, the main feature of a 35-year-long conceptual satire of the London art world.
Appropriately, when the Whitney Museum's "open plan" installation devoted to the career of the free jazz pioneer was announced, there was the suggestion of multiple live performances in the museum space by this modern-music legend – but very little in the way of explicit detail.
"Need to act" is Leveson code for installing Ofcom as back-up regulator and assessor of performance, a suggestion from Sir Brian that got howled down first time around in parliament and replaced by royal charter status as a supposed way of keeping politicians, and the statutory regulators appointed by politicians, out of the act.
There's little mystery for Dickens devotees in this enjoyable confection, but Callow's virtuosic renditions give us a convincing suggestion of what a Dickens performance might have been like.
