But no one had seen young women behave like this on stage: enacting a flagrant parody of sexuality, at the same time seemingly tougher and more disturbing than the other (male) groups on the bill.
Caroline Neuber reacted with a bravura gesture: on stage she enacted the banishment of Harlequin from the theatre.
However, the pleasure lies in seeing recent history, in which we all have a stake, enacted on Britain's most prominent public stage.
She would take to the stage and enact Bible stories which had the production values of a Broadway musical.
He twinkles and leers with commendable grace, introducing his loyal cast of egocentric players as they take the stage to enact the story of love, betrayal and, just possibly, murder.
Performed against a swagged gold curtain and accompanied by David Tudor's pulse-racing electronic score, it has 10 dancers bursting on to the stage to enact choreography of joyous, mind-tingling complexity.
The last quarter-hour of the show, in which Ms. Gridley and Mr. Johanson share the stage, re-enacting a rambling dialogue about the neediness of lovers and the neediness of actors, is a distinct letdown.
These countries were chosen because they are at different stages of the tobacco epidemic and at different stages of enacting tobacco control measures.
Because of this limitation, a two-stage procedure was enacted.
Shabayek staged a series of monologues about the need for democracy and freedom; and then decided this had to be enacted on stage by a troupe that would bring new insights about the protest movement to the Egyptian people.
"To boys of his background," Wheeler writes, "Africa was a stage on which Europeans enacted their fantasies or lived out the heroic ideal".
