This time the performers were humanities PhDs; the audience comprised the same but also included doctors on away days notching up some credit.
Not even Foley's folly can quite suppress Orton's epigrammatic wit, and one or two of the performers retain a visible humanity: principally Georgia Moffett as the secretary arbitrarily classified as insane and Jason Thorpe as a dogged cop strangely gratified to be bundled into a dress.
From 1789 to Le Dérnier Caravansérail, her performances are epic, with a cast of vibrant international performers telling big stories about humanity with vibrancy, urgency and poetry.
Robbins knows how to refresh the attention with a non sequitur or an analytical display of craft or a sudden sign of affectionate humanity from the performers.
The performers do their best to spritz some humanity on the proceedings.
Williams, who fronted a similar 24-hour Live Earth event in 2007, when Rihanna and Genesis were among the performers, said: "We are going to have humanity harmonise all at once".
His trusted friend Andrus steps in — and, an actor himself, treats Davie with the encouragement and humanity with which the young performer flourishes.
Ralph Lemon's "Tree" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave festival poetically evoked a shared humanity among Chinese, African and American performers.
As for payment, Asato said that in previous years, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities -- not Metro -- paid performers a stipend, and that the agency's reasons for not providing that stipend this year are "budgetary".
The performances by all of the performers, particularly Richard Topol as Lemml but also Mimi Lieber, Max Gordon Moore, Tom Nelis, Steven Rattazzi and musicians Michael Cohen, Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva were outstanding, but the intimate scenes between Katrina Lenk and Adina Verson demonstrate again that love is humanity's common denominator.
