Zoom out, the Stage Manager is saying, and all the moments of our lives appear fused into one endlessly repeating cycle. Even in the middle of George and Emily’s wedding ceremony, the Stage Manager turns to the audience and confesses, cynically, that he’s seen hundreds of weddings and isn’t particularly impressed with this one. “Almost everybody in the world gets married—you know what I mean?” he says. Later, he adds, “Once in a thousand times it’s interesting.”
