Eventually you'll find yourself having to react awfully quickly, often with both hands, to achieve whatever acrobatics will get you through the level… but each escalation is natural, and you never feel like the game is overreaching the platform or giving you a hard time for no reason.
Neither voice is ever less than entertaining, though Olivier's ("all this malodorous égalité depressed me awfully") flirts more often with crude pastiche, while Parrot's has a more original energy: "There were no flâneurs on Broadway.
But though the sun slants ever lower in the sky, it is still, more often than not, awfully warm out there, and it is getting a little disorienting.
It is tempting to think that the Justices are awfully naïve about politics, which often takes place in the space between agenda items, but perhaps they're just contentedly cynical, at peace with the idea that this is how politics works.
Although based on a children's book by Michael Morpurgo, this impressive play, which originated at the National Theatre of Great Britain, tells an awfully grown-up, tense and often brutal tale.
It is a hand-made, a little sloppy, somewhat crude, often unfair, but awfully satisfying when we are making it better for someone who has a lot less and needs our careful care.
Nicknames, like politics, can often be childish, but awfully sticky, too.
