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Finally, in the studio, she moves to folders “because you can hear paper plates moving and stuff, and they won’t stay on music stands.”

Singers stood, themselves stone guests of sorts, at music stands.

The show mixing fashion and music closed with Hayden’s “Farewell” symphony, written as a protest, and each musician put down their instruments, turned off their music stand lights and exited the stage as they finished.

For playwrights and theater companies, these bare-bones readings — usually just actors performing with scripts on music stands — are a critical part of developing new work.

One particularly voluminous scarlet dress drew gasps of admiration from Radio 3 presenter Georgia Mann, who commented: "I'm surprised she hasn't knocked over any music stands yet".