Kneeling for Black Lives Matter, making pronoun declarations, and taking children to drag queen story hours: some things will be forever associated with ‘peak woke’. With any luck, these actions will soon become so unfashionable that no one will ever own up to having dabbled. Sadly, however, not all relics from this past mania are so easily discarded. Trigger warnings – those few words that promise safety from emotional distress by giving away the endings of novels and plays – continue to proliferate.

In recent months, theatres have proved to be the most fertile breeding ground for these pesky plot spoilers. Back in December, Bromley Little Theatre warned those attending its production of Nicholas Nickleby that the play contained ‘Dickensian slurs’. Frankly, I’d want my money back if it

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