In Kuwait the shaky literary scene was somewhat stirred by the Arab Spring, though the regime maintained its control over the country.
The performance on Wednesday night, at least until the somewhat shaky final scene, went as smoothly as any I've heard by this group over the years.
Not the directors, who spotlight a possibly contaminated crime scene, shaky forensic evidence and abusive police interrogations.
It gets off to a particularly shaky start, with a scene that features two characters who are never heard from again: a slick and slimy fellow who is trying to hire Ray to defend his murderous teenage stepdaughter (who is also his fiancée).
The ruling followed a two-day hearing with attorneys dissecting the shaky and sometimes chaotic scene, captured on the cellphones of bystanders.
Instead, what makes Green Zone effective as a mass vehicle for highlighting the insanity surrounding elements of the drive to war is that it can stand alone as a typically enjoyable Bourne film, complete with Greengrass's classic urban chase scenes and shaky hand-camera work.
In contrast to al Qaeda's videos, which were shot on shaky handheld cameras, IS uses sound design, special effects, rehearsed sequences, and multiple-angle scenes, as well as high-tech 5D cameras and professional editing teams.
It's more of a haiku than a sonnet, so not intimidating to slightly shaky readers, and it lacks extended scenes or many characters beyond Jack, his teacher, Sky and a few stray poets.
But the literary scene they created proved as shaky as the ground on which it stood, declining after the great earthquake of 1868.
If there is a shaky moment, it is in the first scene, when the youngest cast member, Elizabeth Ureneck, as Edith, is evidently told to go about the maid's duties in a series of 100-yard sprints.
