By the end of this show in support of her fifth and best album, St Vincent, Clark has headbanged like an axe-god, pretended to be a robot, ridden roughshod over entire genres – funk, pop, prog rock, heavy metal – vogued, posed silhouetted against the purple backdrop, and feigned her own death.
She tried closing the family's America Online account several times; feigning her voice, he had it reopened.
At one point, Jessica is accused by a fellow Touretter of feigning her tics - the programme never gives her a right of reply.
Better yet, in the dimly lit highlight of the film, he visits a peepshow, in Paris, where a naked model feigns her pleasure behind a glass screen; rather than leering, however, Einar studies her devoutly, his imagination hungering toward her.
But senior constable Shelly Burgess said she believed Dhu was feigning her injuries right up until the triage nurse at South Hedland hospital told her "she is crashing … she has crashed".
Then there is the growing possibility that, in truth, there's nothing wrong with Celia at all: that her mother, Janice, is suffering from the likes of Munchausen by proxy, lying to Celia and feigning her illness … but the truth?
Within the theatre, there is a fascination with plots involving further deceptions: Shakespeare's Portia pretends to be a doctor of law; Rosalind disguises herself as a boy; Juliet feigns her own death.
Matier, she said, adopted Bond's suggestion that Dhu was "faking" her illness in spite of all evidence to the contrary, and "inexplicably" believed she was feigning her injuries up to the point that hospital staff told him she was in cardiac arrest.
Then Wellgunde takes over, and Alberich's hopes rise until her sharp retort: "Ugh, you hairy hunchbacked clown!" Flosshilde pretends to chastise her sisters for their cruelty and feigns her own courtship, by which Alberich is quite taken in until she suddenly tears away to join the others in a mocking song.
As Quanitta feigned sleep, her father groped her sister and often rolled on top.
Instead of strength she feigned obedience, her resistance remaining a secret.
