Normally I find the acting standard here astonishingly high, but I just felt this time there was a lot of wooden standing around. It's hard for the two boys with so little to say or do (no chess set, birdcage, or anything for them to look at?), but I also felt Mrs Stockmann and Petra needed more bite - silent passion much of the time, but passion at least. I'm not sure I would have bothered with the revolve, just had more antimacassars and fringed table lamps and taken them away for the publishing house and the public meeting.

Well done, the crowd - but they were so much mixed in the the Questors audience that one could not appreciate their performance in detail. If that was intentional, I think it was a bit hard on some of the young people.