> The play’s stand-out scenes are undoubtedly the final two, during which the world itself abruptly comes to an end, pointing to the banalisation of an intense political disillusionment that was no longer the preserve of embittered republicans. Having just announced, “with pleasure”, that the world is about to be turned to ashes thanks to a comet set on a collision course with Earth, Dr Scarlatin joins the other characters in a jaunty danse macabre.

LOL I feel this.

Though nowhere mentioned, the title is surely a play on Love in the Time of Cholera, a novel by Gabriel Garcıa Marquez.

Thank you, I thought for a moment I was getting a case of the Mandela Effect