On NYLA's wide and shallow stage, outfitted for the occasion with a frontcurtain to give the appearance of a proscenium, and set austerely as if against a low horizon (by Akiko Iwasaki, who also designed the costumes), "Bell" unfolds more as a patchwork than as an authoritatively layered or structured presentation.
So, as an alternative, it has decided to run 30-minute videos in some Super Tuesday markets that feature the former speaker talking in front of a blue curtain.
He created a stage-wide frieze in front of the house curtain for 11 of his puppeteers to animate the program's second work, Stravinsky's 1920 "Pulcinella" (here in its later suite form).