The Company also dances and sings to great effect and the script is studded with gems: “We were like two anchovies in a heron’s gullet“. Perhaps a certain degree of sophistication is required to fully enjoy a spoof which alludes to Milton and Shakespeare and is delivered in blank verse. But the sustained verve of the action and its joyful contempt for its main target should carry along all but his greatest admirers.

If there is a problem it might be that the Show creates such a super-farce hilarity that we may overlook the tragedy on which it is based. These monsters may be risking Hell. But isn’t Hell something of a hollow metaphor for most of us these days?

However, the fast moving and sharply pointed Show does make an interesting counterpoint to the current Covid hearings where the main protagonists very slowly reveal not very much at all. Except that they are very sorry if other people feel sorry.

(A defence is sometimes made that This was something new that took us by surprise. But I recall a neighbour commenting on the paperwork required to enter Greece and how she expected the same on returning to London. But no, passengers just went their way unrecorded…)