The stark, desolate, drab settings allow the game to tell its story convincingly.

But the stark settings lost the melodic continuity that a band brings to his songs.

So does the use of a few carefully chosen antiques placed in this stark setting.

The lighting, while not too fancy, provided more variation than the average club setup - white-and-shadow effects designed to emphasize how stark the setting was.

The stark settings included the Partch instruments at the center of the visual focus, as well as singers and dancers.

Items are displayed in stores as outfits, in stark settings rather like dressing rooms at a health club.

If anything, they had endeavoured to heighten the impressive stark setting.

Air burned in the stark setting, flesh melted, blood boiled.

But some of the younger members, entranced by the building's faded beauty and stark setting, said their work was not finished.

Using a stark white setting, the director, Mark Lutwak, has given the work a suitably functional production.