He curtain rises on an empty stage. It is late afternoon November, 1945. The rooms are dusty, the curtains in rags. Chairs and tables are overturned. It is early morning, July 1942. The rooms are bare, as before, but they are now clean and orderly.

Read the two sets of stage directions in the passage. Then explain how you would set the stage to show that a time shift has occurred if you were the director.