Oops, the restaurant critic sent to review the on-stage edibles got distracted by the show, Network (an adaptation of the ’70s movie): The food “barely registers. It’s something dark on a plate. Food? Who cares about that? I’m too busy gawping at the kinetic fury of one of the US’s greatest actors playing not just to the hundreds in the Lyttleton theatre, but to us up here in the midst of the ultimate TV dinner”.