For what it's worth, I don't think English wholly succeeded as a performance work.

We have to wait." She is planning a performance work for her Royal Academy show, "not just three hours or three days".

Persistent excess of outward performance works mischief in one of two directions,-eitherupon the body or on the soul.

It's a testament to both that their talent and command of nuance that those performances work in the moment and then in retrospect.

When performances work, quite often it's a coincidence of the part and the person playing it -where they are in their lives.