During rehearsals, he's careful to insist that, within the limits of period etiquette, his courtiers and peasants behave like real individuals, rather than ballet ciphers.
Was she disruptive like Conrad Hilton, brother of Paris, who recently locked himself in the loo to smoke marijuana and then went round screaming "I will fucking own anyone on this flight, they are fucking peasants".
Wasswa was previously a school teacher and says his parents were "peasants", but now, in his 30s, he is anything but.
'Pacification.' They would firebomb whole villages and then the peasants would be relocated into refugee camps … In some of these paintings, the image of the helicopter has breasts hanging down and people are hanging on with their teeth, like a circus act.
Though some tried to blame him for it, for instance, he was opposed to the peasants' revolt of 1381 (which political trendwatchers may like to note also kicked off in Essex, over Brentwood poll taxes).
But how do you tell the story of a settlement too insignificant to have a name, and peasants whose only signatures are their scything styles?
If this was supposed to be the anointment of Jonathan Sexton as the peerless king of European rugby, a few Welsh peasants were positively revolting.
The Romans mined lead in the Castleton caverns and the straight lines of dry stone walls mark the fields that were common land before the "enclosures" drove the peasants to the towns in the 18th century.
If Cristiano Ronaldo pontificates over every header with the ceremony and self-regard of an 18th-century monarch waving to the peasants from his palace balcony, Cahill heads the ball with something more like the nuggety resolve of a local politician giving a speech about pension cuts to a community hall filled with people called Norm and Bev.
To get here, to the Garden, Mr Modi has spent decades roaring himself hoarse thousands of times before crowds of peasants in parched fields.
But one of the big developments of 2014 will be the growing peasants' revolt against the sovereigns of cyberspace.
