Weighty traditions preside over every stage of a woman's life: her first menstrual cycle, marriage, pregnancy, giving birth, even marital rape.
As his former soap star peers trot out for panto season, Jason Donovan will be preparing for something a little more weighty: a lead role in a stage adaptation of The King's Speech.
Mr. Smith's style is far earthier; even when his shoes seem barely to be touching the stage, he exudes a powerful sense of weighty rootedness that makes his virtuosic explosions all the more dazzling.
That weighty role suits his dark heroic tenor voice at this stage of his career.
His minimal house aesthetic, wrought with weighty bass and tech elements, translated well to the larger stage as the fading light of the late Summer day turning to night made full use of the LED-heavy stage production.
Trying to bring that weighty novel -- more than 400 pages long -- to the stage presented both a challenge and an opportunity for Jorge Alí Triana, a Colombian playwright and director with experience in translating Latin America's foremost writers, including Gabriel García Márquez, to the stage and screen.
In James Warwick's deft staging, "An Ideal Husband" is both light and weighty, as giddy as it is provocative.
In over 40 years of scribbling for the stage, she has consistently dreamed up new ways of toying with weighty themes: "Serious Money" (1987) uses salty dialogue delivered in verse to dramatise capitalist corruption.
There is no shortage of weighty issues in the script of "Grounded," but there is a dearth of stage directions.
Others have benefited from good fortune: Charles Ellis's "The Partnership", a weighty history of Goldman Sachs, appeared just as the investment bank took centre-stage.
