But it's a viciously merry, violent, high-wattage entertainment, and speech is the most brazenly flamboyant element in it.
"We've always been super interested in the dancing aspect, and I suppose the more flamboyant element and showmanship of dancing, which I think is becoming less of a 'weird' thing now, what with every fucker out there in the world of house shuffling". .
But leaving aside the risible elements in this flamboyant epic, Mature finally becomes a noble and tragic figure as he prepares himself to pull down the temple.
There's certainly an element of that: the flamboyant three protagonists (played by Stamp, Weaving and Guy Pearce) encounter bigotry as they travel further from the city to the sticks and have their bus (the Priscilla of the title) defaced with red graffiti reading "AIDS FUCKERS GO HOME".
His disciplined presentation combined elements of Hugh Jackman, Harry Connick Jr., Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake, but without flamboyant showmanship or emotional display.
At the same time, they retained elements of their own more flamboyant aesthetic, and it is the intertwining of these two strands, Chinese and Central Asian, that "The World of Khubilai Khan" explores in thematic sections devoted to daily life, religion, painting and sculpture, and decorative arts.
For the most part, the gay element of the crowd consists of flamboyant young queens and tough, handsome machos who wouldn't be out of place in any urban setting from Miami to New York.
She does point out however that Jack retains some elements of bisexual stereotyping, particularly in his "flamboyant" promiscuity.
There were cheers for all, though I think many were baffled by the dance element, choreographed by Mark Baldwin and designed – using a flamboyant gothic reredos behind which the orchestra were mainly hidden – by the artist Pablo Bronstein.
He may not automatically go for the most flamboyant brand of football but his teams always have an element of control and structure.
Designed by Julian Macdonald, these costumes have always struck me as too flamboyant, and it takes a while to focus on the key element of Shimmer: the lights that glimmer across the choreography and across Ravel's accompanying piano music.
