As the animals were munching on anchovies, an unlucky sea lion failed to get out of the way in time and ended up inside the whale's mouth, Dekker recounted in interviews and an Instagram post.
Dekker argues that the Austrian economists are best understood--borrowing the label of his title--as "Viennese students of civilization." Each of the three key words in this phrase is significant.
Dekker had everything to lose against Ashton and the scrutiny was ramped up when the Lancashire Rose produced an astonishing first-set show to take the lead and get the London crowd roaring her on.
Writing on Dekker's strategies for using print to 'mediate' pageant performances, David Bergeron observes the playwright conversing with his own text as a book as well as with books of past pageantry so that 'one book looks at another'.