Do you see development here? Are you living like white men? No! We’re still living like bus kanaka.

The stage was still medieval in the sense of using multiple loci and platea that could shift its identity from before the palace to the Roman camp. La belle Genièvre could have been performed on a similar stage, although a Renaissance monoscene is also possible and even likely.

If anyone still harbors the fantasy that the business scandals of the past few years were the handiwork of just a few bad apples, they should read John Bogle's Battle for the Soul of Capitalism.

It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.