But for all its pandering to our inner 12-year-olds, The Three Musketeers is strangely uninvolving, the characters crowded out by explosions and airship battles.
The routine has been dropped and it is a strangely subdued crowd when this is the competition the club want to embrace.
It drew a strangely mixed crowd, ranging from Belgrade University professors to defence lawyers for the handful of war-crimes suspects who have faced the United Nations tribunal in The Hague; and, astonishingly, a group of defiant Kosovars.Official Serbia, though, is a long way from dealing frankly with its brutal past.
Brodinski played a fun rap-heavy 4PM set (to a strangely motionless crowd).
Life-sized Jenga games drew strangely large crowds, the lazy disco napped in pod chairs hanging from tree branches, and the yarn bombing was ubiquitous.
Its ornate pavilions are still strangely beautiful, but the park itself has grown ramshackle and is crowded with tacky fairground attractions.
Its practitioners made paintings that were self-consciously visionary, histories crowded with loops of ethereally elongated figures, whose tiny heads, aloft giraffe necks, sprout from sinuously elastic torsos clad in strangely shredded garments that resemble a second flaking skin.
Then, strangely, Cold Mountain (the place, not the poet) crowds all writers out of the book — including, sometimes, Vollmann.
But the crowd was strangely discordant.
The lights dim and the sell-out crowd are strangely silent.
