Suzanne Harrington: Baby Reindeer made for explosive drama in a small London theatre

"The room juddered with Gadd’s adrenaline, its audience mesmerised, horrified, our held breath punctuated with an occasional gasp of laughter."

Richard Gadd as Donny Dunn with Jessica Gunning as Martha in Baby Reindeer. Photo: Ed Miller/Netflix

Top-notch theatre is a luxury, like fine dining or cashmere onesies. 

You pay the equivalent of a cheap package holiday to spend two hours wedged in a tiny 19th-century seat (a kind of Edwardian Ryanair experience) to see Gillian Anderson or Andrew Scott or Brian Cox doing their thing in London’s West End.