The School for Scandal, Barbican Theatre

In a Guardian blog, the newspaper’s chief critic, Michael Billington, points out the fact that at yesterday’s Critics’ Circle Awards, fringe venues did rather well.

Favourite stage direction: “As the audience enters, it seems there is almost nothing on stage.”

Pirate Dog is the kind of animal that likes decisive choices: either something is edible, or not.

Quote of the day: “Technological amnesia and complete indifference to history remain the defining conditions of contemporary internet debate.”