Faced with excess space, the directors decided to tack on a vast indoor heath, which the audience members, four times as many as in England, must walk through to get to their seats.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Winson Green was a small hamlet on Birmingham Heath, a vast stretch of largely uncultivated, open land west of town.
The sky highlights for a last moment the rocks of the darkening heath, a vast stretch of empty land with a church in the far distance and a lone figure at the right.
Once a year, when the season turns and the birds' procreative urges turn with them, the curators of Hampstead Heath's vast swaths of lawn and scrub and woodland hold a Dawn Chorus Walk to identify by their warbles and chirrups the species of birds calling out for a mate.
In the early 19th century, Hounslow Heath was still a vast woodland extending over thousands of acres; the area was notorious for attacks by highwaymen.
The Snowy Mountains are home to Australia's highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, a vast wilderness of snow gums and alpine heath that offers a huge range of outdoor pursuits from horse riding to fishing or canoeing.
Xiem Clay Center Roger Lee, the contemporary ceramicist and longtime assistant to the Heath Ceramics creative director Adam Silverman, teaches classes at this vast ceramics center.
She often goes for a health-restoring amble on Hampstead Heath, which has long since become a sort of vast, extended dog toilet, attracting incontinent canines and their gleeful owners from miles around.
And that general picture is staggering: the reign of Elizabeth II has seen, in wildlife terms, a vast impoverishment of the fields and woods and hedgerows and marshes and heaths of Britain, a great thinning-out of everything, a winnowing, a colossal watering down of the once-vibrant colour and life of our countryside.
Today, under every YouTube video on Columbine – like the one Wyllie uploaded in March of 2017 – vast amounts of young people sympathise with Harris and Klebold the same way they do under videos of Kurt Cobain, Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
