You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd wandered into the wrong venue and taken your seat for a classical piano recital - all that stands before us is a plainstage and a grand piano.
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As if giving the audience a glimpse into the character they were there to celebrate, Goldwater's brother Robert took the stage and displayed the humor and plain spoken gratitude that seems to define his family.
Taking their cue from a line in which one of the characters describes the Porters' one-room flat as "a very narrow strip of plain hell, " they have built a flat black wall five feet from the lip of the theater's stage, creating a claustrophobically narrow playing area in which the action takes place.