The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

This creates a separation of the three worlds: three because, apart from the 'real' world of the audience and the perceiving minds of individual spectators, the one on the stage is in fact dual in nature, material and fictional, with both spheres divided by the fifth wall.

Peanuts flew everywhere, little legumey pellets spitting into patrons, mirror, and floor like machine gun bullets.

He was gardener and out-door man, vice Upton, resigned.