For the entire run of Mr Burns at the Almeida Theatre, I have avoided reading any reviews, and scrolled past any references to it on Twitter. There has been a tremendous fuss about it, and I didn’t want to come out of the play spouting hyperbole because my perception had been warped by others’ deconstruction. Instead, I came into it cold, without even having re-watched The Simpsons episode that the play references, and endeavoured to have my own pure experience of it.