In 1774, members of the Continental Congress protested the idea of bringing in a chaplain to lead prayers: "We were so divided in religious sentiment," one of them explained, "that we could not join in the same act of worship".
The female courtiers in the same act wear abbreviated Baroque dresses so badly cut that they look like culottes.
Yet she brought delicacy and a clarity to other solos, including one to a pizzicato melody in the first act and another in the same act in which she waved a white veil.
Her big solo, usually danced earlier in the same act, was here danced for Bathilde, the fiancee of Albrecht, the aristocrat who seduces Giselle.
This being "Whipped Cream," there is another drunk routine in the same act, involving the boy's doctor and twelve nurses with hypodermics the size of Kalashnikovs.
Equally emblematic is the uncomfortable colloquy between Vanya and Elena in the same act, when his ardent confession of love is met by Elena with impatient bewilderment.
It is unconscionable to put forward an arbitration provision and in the same act (same email) violate the law," he said in an email.
To scroll down his Vine page is to see shades of Benny Hill, Bernard Manning, Adam Sandler, Woody Allen and Andrew Dice Clay all in the same act.
They're probably still in a vegetarian cafe in Holloway, still doing the same act".
"We were trained like that to talk the same, act in a certain way," she said.
