She was entering the realms of prolonged seizure activity or status epilepticus, which is a medical emergency that carries a 20 per cent risk of death.

As a result, the catalogue was dominated by the usual comedic corn and the martial parpings of Arthur Pryor's band.

How thrilling it would have been[…] if [Sadiq] Khan had denounced the [Thames garden] bridge in every way: […] as a symbol of the chummery – the chumocracy, even – that so offends the democratic and egalitarian traditions he is proud to represent.

The Wild Things are a triumph of stagecraft, and they galumph away with the show.