In a darkened theater a platform suspended from the ceiling sways back and forth above a sea of empty liquor bottles.
David Borovsky's set is in the stark, minimalist mode of much classic contemporary theater, a platform of light wood surrounded by dark wooden walls.
And although in this larger theater the platform now seems as much like a ropeless boxing ring as a fashion catwalk, the four women who patrol it (Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Natalie Green, Rebecca Warner and Rebecca Wender) still pace and pivot like models, outfitted in fur or tape or nothing at all.
The film will be screened, following a live introduction from the stars and director, on the spanking-new Steinberg Screen at the BAM Harvey Theater, a modern platform for brave new visions.
There's just one night a year that theater gets this platform.
Home to the Oakland School for the Arts charter school, the Fox Theater is a platform for expression on all levels.
Last January, it even knocked some of the busiest AMC theaters off their platform, after unsuccessfully asking for a cut of their admissions and concessions profits.
Glasgow has witnessed the closure due to police pressure and narrowing of licensing hours, of much loved and world-renowned The Arches, which funded a theater that provided platforms for international talent to the City of Culture that had come out of 1980's destitution.
Today, I'm a theater critic with a platform to express myself.
But within that big room there is a miniature theater with a low platform stage and a curtain in back.
