But yes. Whenever anyone tells me to be constructive I have the urge to suggest “a short, blunt human pyramid”. I love that play so much.

(I didn’t see it performed until 2017 when Daniel Radcliffe, Joshua McGuire and David Haig did it at the Old Vic, which was a really, really great production and which I enjoyed a lot.)

As a teenager, somehow — I think possibly through my mature student mum’s cultural studies degree — I discovered the script of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead and promptly committed the entire thing to memory.

This is now even more intriguing as there’s a good chance she’s now a classicist or an ancient historian?

Ooooh I have something for this!

We have some pretty stringent guidance for internal and external examiners of PhDs which says something very similar