Two one hundredths of a second. That's the different between winning and losing in Olympic sports. In our daily lives such a duration is meaningless. It's faster than the blink of an eye. The sponsor for Olympic timing equipment, Omega, takes a prominent role in determining the outcome of these competitions. The milliseconds matter.

The theatre endures as a refreshing dramatic encounter where there are no screens. Our dramatic lives are dominated by screens - movies, TV, video games. Theatre is a refuge from the daily barrage of pixels. This is the theatere's great appeal, seeing the sweat on the actors' faces, the risk of mistakes, the noise of stagehands scrambling in the dark between scenes; it's real; it's dramatic.