All the while, he is being spied upon by his nemeses: Sir Toby Belch, Olivia's drunken, parasitic uncle (Dave Shalansky); Sir Andrew Aguecheek, the foppish, rather dense buddy of Sir Toby's and self-styled suitor of Olivia (Matt Bradford Sullivan); and Fabian, Olivia's servant (Jon Barker).
In some ways Gillian Murphy is perfectly cast as the heroine Kitri, the high-spirited innkeeper's daughter, who defies her father to marry the impoverished Basilio rather than the rich, foppish Gamache.
One is that the artist should stick to a recognisable, somehow "natural" style, rather than dooning guises briefly for a foppish lark: Stars Forever has a palette of pastiche stretching from medieval music and vaudevillean soft-shoe shuffle to Plastic Bertrand's Belgo-punk hit Ça Plane Pour Moi.
He is hopelessly infatuated with the coquettish Celine (Zoë Winters), who would rather dally with the fatuous Ron (an assured John-Michael Marrs) or the marquises Clinton Daniel Morgan Shelleyy) and Cashin (Colby Chambers), twin foppish caricatures.
Instead of conveying coldblooded malevolence, Damian sparks laughter with pouts and petulance, foppish hair grooming and a pompous English accent overly reminiscent of Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh.
They wore faintly foppish shirts.
After a rather dull first act, the show picks up considerably in the second, thanks largely to a hilarious turn by Sean McNall as a foppish lord who can get three syllables out of the word "yes".
And how foppish these warriors are!
A foppish, brunette-Brian Jones-a-like for a manager.
In his foppish world there are worse fates than rehab.
