★★★★☆ Mike Bartlett’s gripping and ambitious tale of dysfunction and personal peril uses the imminent threat of an earthquake to symbolise impending climate catastrophe and the seismic emotional tipping points between three sisters, their father and their partners.

★★★★★ Whether whispering instructions to the inept and rival lover Christian beneath Roxane’s window, leaping barricades during the war with Spain or duelling with those will the nerve to refer to his proboscis, Sturrock’s Cyrano is a playful magnet always drawing the eye, exposing the conflicted man’s inner and outer workings while he both rages and inwardly weeps.