Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1
The Chocolate Factory specialises in reviving musicals, (Sondheim's A Little Night Music is next), so with this resurrection of Webster's Jacobean revenge tragedy it is branching out.
At the end of this admirably fast-moving production a lone caretaker walks on to the Chocolate Factory's traverse stage and casually mops up the blood.
Mopping blood is always poignant. It suggests that the brutality just witnessed is not particular to the evening's events - in this case the real-life adultery and corruption in Italy's 16th-century court that inspired John Webster to write his play - but part of the human condition, a point highlighted by director Jonathan Munby's decision to opt for a modern-dress production.
