When her body becomes heavy and he or she climbs on the desk to sleep, the display behind her falls away, the stage opens up and a troupe of performers emerge, dragging corpses and vibrating with movement. They gown and caress Bianchi’s physique, creating a fever-dream round her. As the show expands, beautiful and grisly, Bianchi becomes not only a sacrifice for instance the story, but a bodily symbol of the burden of her research. The rigour slackens somewhat in a while but the scope and scale of the piece is astonishing, dragging us through hell and out the opposite aspect without ever being gratuitous or graphic in its presentation.

The day of the taking pictures, on Oct. 21, 2021, the crew was setting up a decent frame of Mr. Baldwin drawing an old-fashioned revolver. Investigators said he was told the gun was “cold,” meaning on this case that it …