Christie's biographer has pointed to the dark story of cruelty that triggers the plot, and a recent correspondent to the Guardian identified a relative as the real-life victim.
While these stories arise from sober and recognizable threats — nuclear war, plague, climate change, resource depletion — these serve as little more than a trigger for the plot, which involves handsome actors going postal on the relevant villains: aliens or cyborgs or, more recently, zombies meant to personify the dehumanizing effects of modern society.
Mr. Beck, who said he saw the show on Saturday, also praised the musical's kooky portrayal of scientists who are preoccupied with global warming, such as Norman Osborn, whose experiments mixing human D.N.A. with that of spiders help trigger the main plot of the show.
How Cowboy and Indian - both eager for the more mature Horse's approval - dispose of those extra bricks and the fall-out from that plan trigger the rest of the plot.
The plot's trigger is the notion that one old codger – a marvellously shifty, shuffling Timothy West – has cast his vote twice.
The plot was triggered by the process.
Set in 1974, the plot is triggered by a simple little incident involving the 24-year-old Babe (Dorea Schmidt), the youngest sister, who says she shot her husband because she "didn't like his stinking looks".
It focuses attention on the fuel that is the trigger of its plot.
Ms. Bautista-Horn did not produce evidence of the plot, but it triggered much speculation and debate in the lively Manila political scene.
A sub-plot about Madonna as a homicide witness was included and became the trigger factor in the ecstasy part of the plot.
