As Byron wrote in "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": "There is the moral of all human tales; / 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, / First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, / Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last".
To get it right, Mr Bordley says there has been plenty of practice, which has meant returning to the same rehearsal site and seeing the giants again, which has brought back "many happy memories".
In the same year, rehearsals of his macabre play Salomé, written in French and designed, as he said, to make his audience shudder by its depiction of unnatural passion, were halted by the censor because it contained biblical characters.
The company showed us a recent one, "Click-Pause-Silence" (2000), in which four dancers did a sort of dyspeptic ballet while an onstage TV monitor showed us the same ballet in rehearsal.
When I watched the Nrityagram performance last week, many of these positions fell into place in my mind in a way they had not early in my visit to India, when I saw the same choreography in rehearsal.
His overdue debut at the Royal Opera, London, with Verdi's Luisa Miller in 1978, brought an enthusiastic response: the man whose slogan might have been "call me maestro" went out and had a T-shirt blazoned with "I love opera!" But at the same time, one rehearsal with Covent Garden musicians broke down because the players felt he was making unreasonable and unsympathetic demands.
Just like puppies learn to wrestle and playfully bite, these young people are doing the same type of "rehearsal" in the event that someone tries to abduct or hurt them.
All productions pretty much follow the same pattern: script, casting, rehearsals, design, tech rehearsals, dress rehearsals, opening night, run, closing night.
But they added that the system provides continuity, with the same stagehands working rehearsals and performances.
He composed The Gambler based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel of the same name, but rehearsals were plagued by problems and the scheduled 1917 première had to be canceled because of the February Revolution.
Try to ask the questions in your interview rehearsal, in just the same way as rehearsing your answers.
