We begin this week with a story that has provided great joy — not least for the fact that, in its every detail, it assumes the form of a perfect joke, against odds of millions to one. Like the crystals forming in freezing rain managing to produce, magically, a snowflake that looks exactly like Danny Dyer’s face.
On Saturday night Taron Egerton — who most of us will know for his superlative turn as Elton John in Rocketman — made his West End debut in a Mike Bartlett play. Unfortunately, towards the end of the show, he unexpectedly fainted on stage in front of an astonished and concerned audience, and had to be replaced with his understudy.
As Egerton — now perfectly well, save a