The actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, above, Oscar-nominated for Twelve Years a Slave, is currently starring at the National Theatre as the eponymous hero of Everyman, in a new version of the medieval morality play by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate.Duffy sticks closely and wittily to the original. In this updating, golden-quiffed Goods – one of the characters representing objects and belonging – is no longer weighed down with sacks and bags (bling being liberated by virtual credit), and there is a persistent lament for environmental destruction.  The poet, who was raised Catholic, has Everyman grappling with both faith and the act of contrition in Latin and English.“The original play was decidedly Catholic,” says Dr Philip Crispin, a drama academic from Hull Univers