It was the last night of our holiday and we really should have been packing. Instead my sister S and I were watching Richard III. This hybrid production was part-performed live on stage in Tudor dress, with additional scenes on television in a black and white contemporary setting.

Audience members could also interact with the actors online. This is how I discovered that TPR was having an affair with a member of Richard III’s court. I made my discovery when I intercepted his flirty Skype messages. His mistress was a skinny blonde actress in a long gold-braided burgundy velvet dress. I tried to trip her up from my front row seat as she scampered across the stage.

Of course TPR had no idea that throughout the whole performance I was stealing soft kisses from a tall lean stranger with beautiful, smooth, muscular arms…