The landscape constantly invites comparison with the sets from Stargate, Starship Troopers and Mission to Mars.
Ahmadi, the designer, defended himself: "The problem with the sets is materials — clothes, fabric.
The crews travel from town to town in enormous buses and trucks loaded with the sets and lights.
But the unkindest cut came after the show closed, when movers accidentally let the music be burned with the sets.
These objects can be represented by sets of features and then compared with the sets extracted from other pictures.
In the last year Mr. Patel, 37, was credited with the sets for 11 plays and one opera.
"I came along with the sets," Price later joked, and he stayed with the production for three years.
The costumes, his first for ballet, have a quality of fantasy that, together with the sets, suggests a well-drawn video game.
This superbly realised space, built in Shepperton Studios, was rooted in Adam's fascination with the sets of Dr Caligari and Metropolis.
The approach, devised by Mr. Lawless, is original, along with the sets, by Giles Cadle, and the costumes, by Ingeborg Bernerth.
