joviality

Amid the banter and joviality, the message from the Red Roses was clear: they want to inspire the next generation.

There’s silliness — one production involved a cryogenically frozen Swedish rapper — and the overall tone is one of joviality, the belief that art in the early 21st century should be increasingly interactive and playable.

He coupled his counsel with joviality and a scratchy, infectious laugh that took some of the sting out of his sometimes-unwelcome advice.

“And there was kind of a pall from the joviality and it quieted down… In a sense, I hope that the players themselves took that to say, ‘You know, we do have to do something.’”

A classmate at the time said she had turned the school "in completely the opposite direction" during the election, using her "personality, joviality and optimism".