Variations on the Death of Trotsky Design Notes

For future blackmail/reference purposes, here are my overbearing and eccentric notes to the designers for the one act David Ives play I directed entitled Variations on the Death of Trotsky:
Notes to Designers Christian Boy and Alice Bristow
Statement of Vision
Variations on the Death of Trotsky is a dark comedy. It is both Post-Modern and Existentialist. On [...]