In this the first play in Theatre West’s new autumn season, playwright Marietta Kirkbride has produced a richly layered observation of a vulnerable individual seeking enrichment and life experience through the internet, and how that goes horribly wrong. It is a fascinating study of how the web can both hide and expose identity – how it can seem like a sensitive intimate one moment, a destructive megaphone to the rest of the world, the next.

As a spectacle, Ghost splutters. Sometimes it hits its target as an all-guns-blazing West-End musical, then seems to want to be something much smaller, more intimate. Perhaps in film the power of close-up would have helped. But its simple message, to remind us of our own mortality, and the power of articulating a message of love to someone we cherish while we have breath to do it, will always have resonance.

A crowd of some 30,000 braved the slate-grey skies and continual downpours over Bristol yesterday to soak up an inspiring day of music and other cultural events that combined to provide a case for wider contact with the world and greater solidarity with refugees in particular. A Team Love and Crosstown Concerts production, all acts on the main stage had been chosen personally by Massive Attack, themselves