I've never lost that kind of straightforward romantic attachment to the staging of a play.
Sets were minimal, the stage action incisive and straightforward.
For this critic, in the disorienting throes of autumnal hay fever, what was being done and said on the stage seemed like a straightforward account of an average day: the kind when your body refuses to do what you tell it, and your thoughts seem to have been planted by someone else.
At one point, he said, the spotlight will shift between the singers Kerry O'Malley and Mazz Swift on opposite sides of the stage, with Ms. O'Malley presenting straightforward renditions of arrangements by Haydn and Ms. Swift offering syncopated versions of the same melodies, drawing on African traditions, as the slaves at Monticello were likely to have done.
A few years before leaving the stage, Mr. MacNeil gave a straightforward assessment of the opera world to his friend and Met colleague Jerome Hines, the well-known bass, who interviewed him for a 1982 book "Great Singers on Great Singing".
The 3D/isometric aspect is remarkably well done and the controls are straightforward — but the stages sure aren't.
The theater's black-box space provides a perfectly good setting for the low-tech, straightforward staging of "Time Step," which completed a four-day run Sunday.
Why he made no effort to link Dasein's temporality to its age, even in the straightforward sense of the stages of life, is hard to fathom, for when it comes to Dasein's existential determinations, age remains as fundamental as thrownness, projection, fallenness, being-unto-death, and being-with-others.
Seeking straightforward answers to questions like these will set the stage for successful strategy implementation.
"It was a relatively straightforward stage," said Wiggins, who has held the race lead for a week since winning the stage-2 time trial.
