"The future," he declares in his stagey whisper, "is bringing more understanding of how we make the decisions we make on a biological level, and then to step back from that and see what is going on.
It's far too camp and stagey for cinema, really, as are the luridly coloured costumes and absurdly clean and tidy "medieval" sets.
But my advice to Hynes would be: lose the stagey hectoring, be yourself, and find your stand-up voice.
In other even more absurdly stagey arrangements she is making like a ring-mistress, ringing a feeble change on her old dominatrix incarnation.
A connoisseur of movies on TV, I'd grown up on Westerns, gangsters films, Bob-and-Bing comedies and stagey musicals.
The antics of Tara Emma Cunniffee) become merely tiresome and overly stagey.
You can also always be sure that their shtick is never knowingly underdone, from the duelling green lasers to the big perspex piano to Bellamy's shamelessly stagey way of drrrawing ouuut a syllable.
A branded gesture like Merkel's can "feel sort of stagey," she says, and is distracting to the audience.
Perhaps this was exactly the effect that the photographer Annie Leibovitz was trying to achieve with her dozen portraits of women celebs posed in situations that ranged from the conspicuously stagey to the downright mundane, for her aim, as fashion commentators have rushed to assure us, is to confound the expectations that onlookers, especially male onlookers, had of her.
It was, in all the right ways, so brilliantly stagey that when, at one point, Cave gestured to his sound engineer, it was like an actor breaking the fourth wall and addressing the camera.
The scene has various stagey devices often used by the artist: a glass chamber, a hanging light bulb, a pointing arrow, a disc of blue spotlight on the floor, a dark suggestion of a shadow or a leak.
