Written and directed by artistic director Natalie Ibu, I Know… represents the company’s most ambitious production and tour so far. Ibu describes the motivation behind the play: “A transformative moment – where the play really found itself – was when I found out, over Facebook, that I had five half brothers in Nigeria that I didn’t know about. I found myself grieving five men that hadn’t died but were absent . . .

Apart from making the play a little more accessible to some theatre-going punters little has changed in terms of the overall arc of the play. Any temptation to concentrate on the love story has been resisted, with due weight being given to what Rebecca Goldstein has referred to as, ‘mattering’, that is that self-reflection of an individual’s worth; a question which has been troubling us since Homer’s Illiad . . . The music underlines the emotional journey that mirrors the intellectual struggle that finds its flowering in the meeting of two minds, which is the bedrock of Jane’s relationship with Rochester.

I think it is clear why St Joan of the Stockyards has seldom been revived. At one point Joan steps out of character to exclaim, ‘I don’t know what’s going on in this play anymore!’ and I suspect that many in the audience will feel the same, for the ‘oily machinations’ of the businessmen are presented in a bewilderingly complex fashion. . . I enjoyed the skill, energy and commitment of the young actors, but I couldn’t help feeling that they deserved a better play with which to demonstrate their considerable talents.