In a row of glass cases, waxwork tableaux of Victorian surgeons are shown lopping off limbs while their patients are forcibly restrained. |
Many feature elaborately costumed models posing in carefully orchestrated, dramatically lit tableaux. |
The dungeon is more like a catacomb, linking a series of tableaux that expose the grisliest entrails of York's history. |
There's a quaintness in these tableaux that's at first charming but eventually slides into overkill through sheer grating repetition. |
The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered. |
Gone were the artificial and outmoded divisions into three or four acts with scene changes and elaborate tableaux. |