In the second half, it loses momentum and the shift from enjoyable staff-room farce to darker drama feels strenuous.
But like the writing, which lacks the wit, joy and sadness of Barrie's original, it often feels strenuous, and the largely all-male cast (one female to 11 men: why?) work overtime to keep the show afloat as it moves towards the barely earned tear-jerking finale.
The wideranging choices feel overly strenuous, as if Williams were literally spinning plates, and the skittishness extends to the wait staff, many of whom don't appear to be comfortable talking about food.
They also had used less oxygen to generate that force and reported that their exertions had felt less strenuous.
While many writers wish to make their humanity felt, the strenuous precision of Jaeggy's work reveals an aesthetic resistance to the soul laid bare.
"If the program feels too strenuous, just lengthen it.
Performed against Tom Scutt's blue graph-paper design, the Brechtian effects sometimes feel a tad strenuous with additional information sent out as LED readouts on dangling screens and with nuns singing the rhymed introduction into oversize microphones.
Trainee trumpeters, she explains, often treat it as "a sport" and feel that mastering the strenuous technique is everything when, actually, it is only "the beginning of what is possible".
When we fight an urge, it feels like a strenuous effort, as if there were a homunculus in the head that physically impinged on a persistent antagonist.
But what worked with Henry V and The Alchemist feels a touch strenuous in the case of George Etherege's 1676 comedy of bad manners.
They were there on the days when he felt strong enough to go to the gym, only to feel debilitated again after a strenuous workout.
