Word: pitting
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...Does the idea of drinking graham cracker milk gruel make you laugh or feel ill or both? What about accidentally crushing a mole's skull under your heel and hearing it crack and then putting its severed paw into water, like an avocado pit? Or watching someone shoot staples into their eyeballs for beauty? Or eviscerating a small-horse-like thing and discovering embryos? Your answers will go a long way in determining how you will take to this book...
...probably thought the song was about me. To have walked around with my discman, wearing the fact that I was listening to the new Sonic Youth as a badge of pride, angling the CD player so that it caught people’s eyes. To be in the mosh pit of a Pearl Jam concert. (And yes I know all those references date me as an early 90s teenager rather than a late 90s one.) Or to be 18, going three times a week to clubs, hands in the air for songs that were favorites within those particular clubs...
...thought about music (hell, before that, I owned both Wilson Phillips albums), not the Counter-Reformation that restored orthodoxy and maturity. It was simpler then. Before Trent and all that. Before I became Pollyanna. I know a lot of it may be just pose, but I walk by the Pit kids and I’m envious of the certainty of their musical allegiances...
...Mounting all eight works in their entirety is a mighty task and one the company has never before attempted. This time, 79 actors play 264 roles in a saga that uses three theaters - the Barbican, the Pit and the Young Vic - 400 costumes, five liters of stage blood and five severed heads. Those who buy tickets to the whole thing get to watch almost 24 hours of theater...
...back to the theater, slightly more than a week before tonight’s opening. The hole in the ground? Merely the orchestra pit. The 20 ft. trees? They’re made of painted slats of wood attached to wires. According to Marsh, set designs went into production in November so they would be ready for Mainstage applications in December. Building the set officially started around February, though the task was complicated by the fact that all productions performing in the Loeb Drama Center share shop space. Schedules had to be coordinated. The production began setting...