This much-publicised production features the British theatre debut of Susan Sarandon, star of movies including Thelma & Louise and Dead Man Walking.

The standing ovation has become such a reflex in London theatre that it’s only news now when it doesn’t happen. So hold the arts page: at the public (non-press) performance of the latest show at the Old Vic, the only theatregoers on their feet at the end were those trying to get out of the auditorium before the rush. Such static indifference – now almost equivalent to furious booing – resulted even though this much-publicised production features the British theatre debut of Susan Sarandon, star of movies including Thelma & Louise and Dead Man Walking. And the withheld reception felt in large part a response to her.

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