I don't want to seem ungrateful because I didn't pay for my ticket but it is difficult to properly review the Royal Court's Chicken Soup with Barley because I could only see half the stage from my seat.

Was really lucky to win two tickets which happened to be in the circle slips - avoid these seats like the plague - and I probably wouldn't have got to see this wonderful play otherwise, so I'm thankful for that.

But it doesn't get around the fact that for large chunks of key scenes I couldn't actually see any of the actors as the dinner table around which much of the action takes place was obscured. I'm not exaggerating but certain characters I didn't actually see properly until they took their bow.

Anyway pushing that to one side, what I saw was brilliant. This is a political play with a real heart. Sarah Kahn (Samantha Spiro), an East End Jewish mother, is a communist, an idealist and obsessed with making sure everyone is fed and watered at every opportunity. She also lives under her own obscure but amusing sort of logic.

"God knows what I'll do without air when I'm dead"

Every ounce of homemaker is more than matched by her passion for the cause, nothing will stop her protesting and fighting for what she sees as right.