The details of the play and playhouse above these reviews are usually just a functional preface to assessment of the production. In this case, though, the names themselves invite discussion.

Even despite the sanitising exclamation mark (inserted by the producers, not our sub-editors), some sites have baulked at carrying advertising for Alexis Zegerman’s play. And, as this show marks the gala reopening, after a £7 million makeover, of a place known for 37 years as the Kilburn Tricycle, first-nighters had to walk through clumps of local protestors.