Word: passageway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hill's directing deserves commendation. He utilizes every inch of the small Leverett House Library, including many doors, the stairways and the narrow passageway behind the seats, to expand the set and surround the audience with action. Light Designer Tim Magner uses different lighting techniques to convey changes in time and space--particularly during Jake's occasional daydream or flashback. And Hill's staging enchances the production by emphasizing the riff between the two clans. One side of the stage is reserved for Jake's family, another for Beth's, and their paths rarely cross...
...read on, perhaps expecting me to reveal a secret passageway out of the stacks or a magical formula that makes hardcovers temporarily invisible...
...people at the mouth of a 550-meter-long tunnel dug through a mountain to ease the pietists' journey. The rain of bodies brought foot traffic to a halt, but at the tunnel's opposite end other hajjis, unaware of the human blockade, continued to shove forward. Soon the passageway was jammed with some 50,000 people, many times more than its capacity. Next, according to survivors, for reasons still unexplained, the lights in the tunnel went out and the ventilation system failed -- on a day when the temperature outside was a searing 44 degrees...