The Wife of Willesden, Kiln Theatre

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

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.

Coronavirus disruption: I was booked in to see Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House, a deconstruction of Henrik Ibsen’s original play, at the Young Vic tonight.

I was struck by, and have always remembered, a remark by Martin Crimp: “I’m always looking for constraints, and it’s the constraints that will let the material be created by me.”