Word: skylight
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Finally, the fourth floor, which will house the Religion Department, is characterized by a large skylight-covered ceiling and a seminar room with cathedral ceilings...
Finally, the fourth floor, which will house the religion department, is characterized by a large skylight-covered ceiling and a seminar room with cathedral ceilings...
...most provocative comedies (A Chorus of Disapproval, Man of the Moment), Gambon is known here mainly as the star of Dennis Potter's admired TV mini-series, The Singing Detective. Now he's making his long-overdue U.S. stage debut, in a Broadway production of David Hare's Skylight. All the ingredients are there for stage magic; unfortunately, too many of the wires and trapdoors are clearly visible...
Hare's plays usually teem with ideas and political passion. He took on the British justice system in Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting...
Within several hours of the accident, repair workers removed the shards of glass which remained in the skylight and replaced three windows with plywood...