Femen, the notorious, often topless radical feminist troupe, loves putting on a show, and the baptism of their new Paris squat on Sunday provided a great opportunity.
The girls, though dressed as girls, were no longer girls, and the boys had paunches and bald spots; the faintest trace of ancient intracomedy-troupe love affairs clung to them sadly; all the promising meetings with the BBC had come and gone.
There was a dancer from the troupe The Love Show, and there were aerialists swinging from the ceiling.
The Californian postgraduate student sings in an eight-piece a cappella group, is a member of an acting troupe and loves rollerblading.
Stepping out of the glittery shadow of the vibrant live-disco troupe Hercules and Love Affair seems a daunting task, but so far Kim Ann Foxman is totally loving it.
Back in the Wild West, in Tombstone, Arizona, young Josephine (Mishaela Faucher) was a well-off Jewish girl from San Francisco who had come to town as part of a travelling theatre troupe and fallen in love with Earp.
We follow her from Communist China to a failing Chinese Opera troupe in San Francisco, to love at first sight with the opera scion's disgruntled son, Ta Jose Llanaa), to life at Ta's raffish, successful Club Chop Suey.
Its DVD release (Criterion Collection, 97 minutes, $29.95) half a century later reveals it to be an extremely uneven comedy-drama that follows a traveling variety show troupe and the players' loves, rivalries, passions, successes and failures.
Marks out of 10: 8 Review in a sentence: The friendliest indie troupe in town feel the love.
And what's not to love about a troupe that counts artists like the incomparable Linda Celeste Sims and Clifton Brown among its dancers?
Even the police seemed to have "fallen in love" with the troupe, dressing up the actors in their uniforms at riotous parties after shows, while trying on the troupe's costumes themselves.
