Both are difficult to invest with directorial imagination that goes beyond Rostand's brief stage directions.
(Peter would become Paul during his brief stage career, so as to avoid there being two Peter Baileys in the English theater of the time).
Except for brief staged visits by media pools, it is off limits to journalists, who expect to be given briefings by diplomats and officials at another hotel.
Froome has only Saturday's brief stage over the Croix de Fer to l'Alpe d'Huez to survive, but at just 110.5km its brutal brevity will suit Quintana down to the ground.
Joe Discher, the director, has fashioned a lovely but brief stage picture to begin the proceedings, one that perfectly sets the tone for this winterized version of Shakespeare's summer tale.
For this reason, the company provides a final, brief stage of training in academies of its own, which it opened in 2009 in the US and in 2011 in Spain.
And given the steady stream of momentous occurrences in this last section, the telescoping effect can start to feel surreal, with birth, death, disgrace, departure and reunion all happening within absurdly brief stage time.
For most of this brief stage, Quintana's Movistar team had set the pace on the front of the peloton, and soon after the foot of the Semnoz, the efforts of Alberto Rui Costa and Alejandro Valverde whittled the leaders down to just seven.
Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own West's brief stage invasion at Sunday night's Grammy awards at first seemed like a bold and yet playful reference to his famous interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV VMAs.
His gaunt look and brief stage appearances at a developer's conference in June spooked Apple watchers.
