And the play includes enough of the recognisable one-liners, like the joke about not fearing people we despise, but not so many that it feels like an exercise in Wodehouse-mania.
As with my mania for exercise, this surgical experience was greeted with unrequested opinions, volumes of advice and I must say a certain gleeful satisfaction from some sedentary people.
The film forcefully compares athletic training and competition to military exercises, implying that the worldwide mania for sports might be a psychological preparation for world war.
MOOC Mania is a good example.
Back in March, when Mania's share price was $100, an executive exercised stock options to buy 10,000 shares of the company's stock for $10 each, or a cost of $100,000.
Exercise physiologists approach the whole new year, new you, total body transformation mania with a jaundiced eye.
And Theo Richardson, of Rich, Brilliant, Willing, says that exercises like this allow designers like him to grapple with the question that the current mania for eco-thinking raises for the discipline of industrial design.
In the face of such mania, the animals of "The Going to Bed Book" adopt any variation possible — this time, exercising after their bath.
