Aerial acrobatics notwithstanding, Daniel Sullivan's staging is plain, blunt and entirely effective, and I'd venture to guess that he did an especially good job of helping Mr. Sturridge to home in on Phillip's pitiful innocence (I loved the glee with which he figures out how to use a shoehorn).
It is an almost pitiful sight and an almost inexplicable one to see Church leaders seemingly unable to explain why or how the Church denied membership to Blacks for so long.