"But when you're charged with delivering 26 simultaneous world championships, it's nice to start ticking them off".
Don't Think will receive a simultaneous world premiere in 20 cinemas across 20 cities on 26 January next year, before a bigger release in February.
New transport networks were designed to link four zones that will house an event often likened to hosting 28 simultaneous world championships.
But she goes, "Noooo!" And eventually we decided that this was what we should do: a seven-city simultaneous world première of the plays.
Instead of fretting too much about plot, Ms. Dew juxtaposes small family occasions with simultaneous world events and monitors tremors along the fault lines between them.
Instead it has come to symbolise many of the issues in the first week of Rio 2016, as organisers try to stage 28 simultaneous world championships in one of the most logistically challenging cities in the world.
As Paes admits, holding the equivalent of 28 simultaneous world championships and hosting 10,500 athletes, 45,000 volunteers and 21,500 accredited media is of a different order to seven World Cup matches.
"War in Val d'Orcia," the diary Origo kept about life at La Foce during World War II, is a masterpiece of reportage about the simultaneous world war and civil war that ravaged Italy 70 years ago.
London is hoping its use of temporary venues and advanced planning will buck the trend on legacy but the IOC must know that asking cities to build facilities for 26 simultaneous world championships in one place every four years is unsustainable at a time of such difficult economic circumstances.
Speaking to the BBC, Lord Coe stressed the scale of the task of hosting an Olympics, saying it effectively involved staging "in 19 days, in this city, 26 simultaneous world championships".
