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...inspectors find proof of continued weapons programs, or else the Iraqis throw up a roadblock to prevent them doing so. Both scenarios set the stage for a quick military response, but, failing that, the process as defined by the UN inspectors may not reach a conclusion within the time frame necessary to launch a war that could be won before the onset of the blistering Iraqi summer...
...gilded gold frame looms high above the stage, hanging from invisible fish line. A pile of oriental rugs, an aging piano and a giant chicken wire sculpture reflect the clutter of the characters’ minds...
Opposite the frame on the split stage is the living room of a gothic Southern estate scattered with newspaper and Victorian furniture. This serves as the “fictitious” stage, although it more closely resembles reality than the “off-stage space” within the play...
Sellars, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1957, is world-famous for staging bizarre twists on classic drama. With his short frame dressed in bright colors and elaborate accessories, Sellars speaks slowly and never breaks eye contact. He smiles frequently from beneath a shock of brown hair that resembles Astroturf...
...Moss uses every frame to underscore time passing, an awareness of mortality that illuminates a kind of passionate caring in the character,” he says...