At the performance I saw back in 2011, this laboriously practised spontaneity from the performers went unrewarded by at least one audience member, who, after an especially inarticulate riff from a character who started a phrase several times, lamented to her neighbour: "The problem with coming to previews is that the actors sometimes haven't learned their lines".
Other, better films slipped past unrewarded, as often happens at film festivals.
"We were promised democracy but got boots on our necks instead," says Mishaan Jabouri, a maverick Sunni politician who feels that his help in trying to allay Sunni fears of America has gone unrewarded.
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His efforts have not gone unrewarded, however: earlier this year he sold enough of his stake in the firm to make him a multi-millionaire.Yet simply ignoring the law or finding ways to avoid it are hardly valid approaches for a firm of Teles's prominence.
But today it almost guarantees that exceptional performance goes unrewarded and mediocre work goes unpunished.
Over the past few years a rejigging of pay grades has boosted some employees' pay to reflect previously unrewarded responsibilities; yet those who turned out to have been overpaid have had their salaries ring-fenced.
Voters do indeed see it as a country where the relationship between desert and reward has broken down, where good people are unrewarded and selfish people prosper.
And the supreme leader himself, during the war on Iraq, was benignly indifferent to the British missiles that landed on Iranian territory.Mr Rezai, a strong ally of Mr Rafsanjani's, complains that Iran goes unrewarded for its emollience.
He laments a French culture where work is unvalued, effort unrewarded and material success deemed suspect.
And that, in turn, makes many southern Africans feel resentful that their often-painful efforts at economic reform have so far gone unrewarded.
