1.   You will now appear in the top, righthand corner of the playing area.

2.   A vast electric orange carpet covers the playing areas, with ottomans, cushions, shawls and smaller rugs cleverly assembled into scene-setting configurations.

3.   Instead of a place in real space, like a stretch of savannah, the playing area could represent all possible ways in which genes can be arranged.

4.   It can exist only in the theater, within a restricted playing area, in a live performance by a superlative cast.

5.   It also expands the playing area to the ocean floor and outer space.

6.   It needs no sticks or balls or hoops or goals, or any special playing areas or complicated sets of rules.

7.   Nine male actors perform in two playing areas.

8.   On a bare stage, the playing areas defined by lighting, the locations move in an instant from Manhattan to Queens to a Greek island and back.

9.   The physical production is minimal, using a small, raked, round stage platform as the playing area, and only essential costumes and props.

10.   The playing area is a long thrust stage, planked with timber that seems to have come from primeval forests.