Design notes: A triptych of women, the state of their uniforms reflecting the depth and longevity of their attachment to their places (the central figure seems to be evolving into Empress Marie-Theresa) are contained in phone switching unit connected by cables and a single ladder to the city above. The men who oversee their work watch from umpire's chairs or pace the narrow walkways which once connected a myriad of now destroyed or absent similar units. But with the introduction of the Strowger Automated Switching Unit (between Acts 1 and 2) all is blown away and this strange and inscrutable piece of modern technology dominates an almost empty stage.

Below - the set under working light
Left - the Strowger photographed in the workshop

All other pictures are production photos of Act 1, used by kind permission of the photographer, Sandra Seitner