An excellent – and surely original – non sequitur in an article in Saturday’s Guardian about the upcoming play based on a French story about a mother so traumatised by the state of the world that she kills her children, to spare them having to endure it.

The rights were obtained on a visit to Paris by one Lisa Dwan, who says: “I was alone in Paris, I wanted to celebrate. I skipped down the street having just bought the rights to probably the most depressing play in the world. I don’t drink or smoke, so I went into a taxidermist’s and bought a stuffed duck.”