Weiner, who more or less started the trend, as a producer of "Sleep No More," attempts total theatre again: a spectacle that incorporates dance, scripted and improvised dialogue, lights, music, and so on to describe the horrors of the Second World War and how death can affect the psychology of lovers and the idea of family.
Ideally each year's show should start with an inclusive song and dance number scripted by South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker, in which hilariously outrageous offence is given to all.
Cartoonish and careering, it constantly bursts its frame with extended dance sequences and scripted meta-theatrics.
Many of these encounters (flirtations, song and dance, a mugging) are scripted.
According to Beatport, EDMtv will be the first television network entirely dedicated to the dance genre and will feature "scripted shows, documentaries, broadcast news, event coverage, and 3D festival streaming".
Gary Lineker, with all the enthusiasm of a man being held at gunpoint, was forced to compare Pogba's celebratory dance to a hastily cut clip of Strictly Come Dancing, before Alan Shearer delivered a clumsily scripted "SEVEN" in an attempt at humour so gentle it made Lineker seem like Stewart Lee.
Other new original video programs for yahoo.com will include "Dancing With Myself" (a working title), a scripted musical comedy series, and a talk show with the actor Jeff Goldblum.
If Peter Kay scripted a show about a hip dance producer, you suspect that he would closely resemble Richard X. "Did you go into that buffet hall at the Brit Awards?" he frowns.
Quaid's words don't exactly sound scripted either (though they do sound like something you could dance to, in this extremely profane mashup of his rant and that of Christian Bale, who in 2009 set the standard for caught-on-video actor outburts).
A dance circle, typically a place for improvisation and friendly competition, here only further highlighted how hopelessly scripted this work is.
Now, it is the source for this strange piece scripted by Frances Viner and based on the Brazilian art of capoeira: a unique mix of dance, drumming, acrobatics and self-defence.
