One of the most enjoyable parts of writing The Tent was choosing the music.

I picked most of the tracks as I went along but it was only on a later draft that the producer/director Toby Swift and I decided we needed a song to go with the fantasy phone calls from 'Jennifer'.

I thought immediately of I Want You by Elvis Costello from Blood And Chocolate - an album I used to listen to all the time on tape back after it came out in 1986.

It's a fabulous set of recordings, mostly much more frenetic than the very intense I Want You -  and all the tracks, according to Wikipedia, were 'recorded in a single large room at high volume, with the band listening to each other on monitor speakers rather than headphones. Costello describes it as "a record of people beating and twanging things with a fair amount of yelling".'

Highly recommended. In fact, it's high time I went to Amazon and got a new copy for myself.

(Here's a more in depth assessment from blog critics.)

Arcadia is a play that leaves almost nothing to be said. I emerged from the theatre bludgeoned by brilliance. And a little bit tired.