His women are, admittedly, less rounded characters, but the servants are as well realised as the masters (and certainly more in control!).
But when the eponymous alien finally reveals itself, the wait is justified: the creature is fantastically well realised, a creeping, slick horror that cannot be stopped, merely avoided.
But the setting is fairly well realised – storms rampaging across external environments – and the colony that serves as a base of operations is authentically utilitarian.
In America, where over 80percentnt of the revenue of the record industry comes from album sales, it is well realised that "the charts" do not just refer to singles.
Not all the characters are as well realised as Alison.
Choosing this subject for the opening production at the city's striking new Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) might seem to be tempting fate, but the production is so well realised that it marks an auspicious launch.
Unfortunately, the gameplay augmenting all the action in the story is nowhere near as well realised.
It was well realised from the onset onwards that any classification needs a firm scientific basis.
The couple's grown-up children are well realised: quarrelsome and opinionated, they transmit home truths their parents shrink from recognising.
Their plan, so far well realised, has been to keep the campaign positive and inclusive in spirit.
It is also a book of visceral physicality: these women aren't always likable, but they piss, puke, wank and run riot across the page, with passages about sex and the physical grind of hard partying being particularly well realised.
