At the same time the audience are tight against the perimeter, as in a boxing ring, for which reason Jonathan Pryce said that the previous version was the scariest stage he knew.
It may well be that failing to save Lehman was the single worst mistake the government has made in this crisis — the event that set off this latest, scariest stage.
Hook, who can be quite scary on the stage, is a bumbling slapstick dandy who is repeatedly humiliated by losing his pants.
"It was quite scary at one stage as we didn't know how much damage it may cause.
Animal lovers will enjoy our clip of a dancing gorilla from Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire and a (staged) scary moment for snowboarder Kelly Murphy, who looked through her video selfies and discovered she had been chased by a bear.
Scary to behold on stage, less so in the flesh, Dibs – with his giant frame – was a roadie invited to live his dream and join the band, and a song of his called Seasons, which opens the new album Onward, blows the evening into high gear.
In an interview for the Los Angeles Times, Westerberg said: "One of the reasons we used to drink so much is that it was scary going up on stage.
I'm not a shy person, but getting out on stage is so scary and vulnerable.
Here was the perfect – if scary – solution: take to the stage unprepared, with nothing to fall back on save quick wit and confidence in the latent funniness of even the most generic comedy audience.
Except for some great grassroots groups doing their damndest to get it out there, the truth about clean coal has been absent from the mainstream conversation because fighting against an all-out lie on the national stage is hard, scary, and expensive.
