The Battle Behind the 12-Hour ‘Demons’

NYTimes.com: IN a huge former factory that once churned out engine parts for electric trains and is now used for art shows and sundry performances, the director Peter Stein moved among his actors on a makeshift stage area. He was blocking the first act of “The Demons,” a complex scene full of exits and entrances, and a square metal column on the left side of the stage was complicating the cues.