They were bloody performances, part of what the Ripper termed in a letter his "funny little game", inspired by the occult mythology of Freemasonry.
Again and again, though, the Tavianis seem to want you to infer something about the inmates from the lines they recite, as when Cassius (Cosimo Rega), while washing his hands in Caesar's blood, states that the assassins' scene will be repeated, a nod at past and future murders as well as at other less bloody performances.
But not some lazy rapper; this was a bloody great performance.
Hot Brown Honey and Brendan Maclean kicked off the evening in song and a black power salute, Peter and Bambi Heaven (Asher Treleavan and Gypsy Wood) gave a bloody good performance (you kinda had to be there); Father Geraldine Hickey created a sacred space with incense; the flower girls mesmerised with a knicker-flashing ribbon dance, and Aunty Tina Del Twist read a lovely piece from the bible.
The original 1998 Lords of Chaos book by Michael Moynihan and co-writer Didrik Søderlind tracked the career of early 90s Norwegian black metal pioneers Mayhem, from their violent, bloody stage performances to the infamous church burnings to the subsequent murder of guitarist Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth by Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes, who stabbed Aarseth to death in 1993.
Enjoy a cocktail reception and a performance of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson".
He repeated in 1960 for "The Trials of Oscar Wilde," in 1961 for "No Love for Johnnie," and in 1971 for "Sunday Bloody Sunday," a performance that also won him an Oscar nomination and brought best actor awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics.
"It's our best wet-weather performance for bloody years," he said.
Matt Damon came up to him after the premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum and raved about Nesbitt's performance in Bloody Sunday.
As he began to raise his fist in a quasi-power salute, I overheard one of the executives of Booker McConnell, the food distributor that sponsored the prize, call the performance "a bloody disgrace".
