1.   He and his beautiful partner sallied through an abbreviated tavern scene from the ballet and its pas de deux with uneven technique and grand style.

2.   Konstantin Pluzhnikov mugs a nasty Mephistopheles in a tavern scene, which lends the opera the sort of demonic scherzo Prokofiev could turn to ironic perfection.

3.   Still, it represents a better attempt to create receding pictorial space than the tavern scenes.

4.   The tavern scenes brim with vigor.

5.   Next, the tavern scenes are a defined type of room scene.

6.   One could write an extended and no doubt largely accurate description of Elizabethan day-to-day realities simply on the basis of the tavern scenes.