Hare enters on a thin plank bridge to a stage built over an abyss.
The only dramatic effects are the lighting, some sounds of Gaza and a model of the Jerusalem skyline that appears when Hare walks the Via Dolorosa, the path that Christ walked to his crucifixion. The designer's aim was to make everything feel natural. In London, MacNeil says he was lucky enough to have a romantic crumbly Victorian theater. It was a natural place for a first-time actor to come out and tell his story. Ian's beautiful pipework snakes across the empty stage and charges the whole stage with the romantic spirit of old Broadway.