Dave Drayton, Journalist

He is – and this can’t be said with nearly the conviction Haft achieves – a genuine ‘cat’.

"I was realising in this play that there’s no one that is evil, the driving evil force is the currency and the gold and the way that we lift gold and money above friendship, love and compassion.”

Everything is more optimistic, but without the counterbalance for the pop, the band seem in danger of sounding a little too cheesy or naff – an art school tribute to Architecture In Helsinki or the like.

The balance between dance and dialogue sequences feels too heavily weighted towards the former, and the dialogue that is there seems secondary, not in its performance, but in its composition.

“I think Rebecca’s driving force in the play is to find truth and that is what propels her through the story, to find the truth about who she is."

Ultimately there is the removal of victimisation, and with this revelation we must reconsider what has played out for the last 80 minutes not as tragedy, but as triumph.

"I’m not very good with metaphors, I’m good with writing everyday situations, so if you want, the metaphor is that they are a bit like Captain Cook, in a completely foreign, strange land where people sing songs about them which sound really wrong.”

At the end The Pillowman seems designed by the bleak parables that pepper it. In place of a moral or a reader’s revolution though is the constant reminder that humanity is sick.

“That first point of investigation was how curious I found it why people would see someone that was maybe sitting three seats away and would pick up their phone and text in."

“I don’t feel sentimental about the ‘60s, even though it’s been commodified and repackaged. Oddly enough, it’s been demonised and mythologised at the same time, so that’s been strange to experience."

Cruise Your Illusion is a damn good cruising soundtrack, laidback and capable of washing over you in what seems like an endless haze.

"For me as a designer, that invitation to the audience into the world of the play, and really letting them know that they’re going to have a good time, is a very important part of my job.”