With huge rotating sets, buildings whose walls retract into the stage so that the audience can see inside, and gasps and applause from
the crowd at appropriate moments, the protagonists, villains, and other residents of Cypress Knee walk spotlighted through the story.
As Barney Ronay notes in The Manager, in some ways the job itself was born from the need for somebody that could be sacked
at the
appropriate moment, for a figure that the club could offer to placate the
crowd.