The surprises hardly amount to huge plot twists; the characters just reveal themselves, taking off their cloaks of authority within a scene in the same way a person might remove a jacket once inside.
It was muggy during my visit, and while Stournaras spoke, he wore shirtsleeves and a tightly cinched purple tie, having removed a dark suit jacket.
Madonna, in her first live television performance since she was injured in a riding accident, emerged from a giant disco ball and cavorted with dancers onstage before removing a leather jacket to reveal a purple leotard.
The music breaks off at the line: "Then he removed a dagger from his jacket and stabbed me through the heart".
Shortly after the elderly woman had departed, another woman, bundled up for a day outside, shuffled over, unzipped her jacket, and removed a plus-sized bag of Cheerios, which she then emptied, with a smile, on the patch of mostly bare ground behind the bench.
He removes a walkie-talkie from a jacket pocket, swigs some coffee, clears his throat of its early morning huskiness and says, "Okay, we ready?" He steps outside, looking down an alley that runs behind the 7-Eleven where the workers have gathered for years.
He removes a pen from his jacket with melodramatic flourish and writes a highball number on the page, flicking it back toward her with a smirk.
The idea, explained Ms. Park, 27, was that guests remove a seat, hang their jackets on the now-vacant dowel and sit down.
