They had four kids on stage who were flailing about madly inside little croquet balls on stage.
This stylization becomes too literal when the idyll is broken up as another ball bounces on stage at the end.
This is probably because it's hard to make even fit young actors resemble professional athletes; a ball kicked on stage is at risk of hitting the audience; and women and Americans, key customers of the medium, are judged by some to be resistant to the subject.
I said, if we can get kids as passionate about science, technology, engineering and inventing as they are about kicking a ball, bouncing a ball or being on stage.
The other plus for the tourists was the innings of Shane Watson, who hit 90 from 94 balls and at one stage was on course for a hundred before lunch.
After getting bitchy reading each other with puppets, they had to whip up three semi-precious runway looks for the Glitter Ball on the main stage.
You come from a network where you have to have a little bit of talent in order to have the balls to get up on stage when you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen... when you're first kicking off in front of an audience and you find a fan following.
I thought about how black people can dribble balls, make touchdowns, hit tennis balls and dance on stages for white consumption, yet our lives do not fucking matter.
And so it was, with Wigan purposeful and composed on the ball, City staged one of their brief retreats into listlessness.
An uppish Gareth Batty cover drive was greeted like his team had won the World Cup; the arrival of Surrey's sole batting bonus point like a monarch's coronation; Ben Foakes's first and only boundary – caring not that it came from his 109th ball – like Taylor Swift had walked on stage.
