25 years of working with - sometimes making - performance for networked spaces curdled me into a sceptic. I didn’t think I’d ever see an online performance that was genuinely any more powerful or affecting for it. Tonight, @bencrystal and team, you changed my mind. Bravo 👏

1 INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION Transformed shared time without shared place into a virtue, into content, into beauty. Floods of light outdoors in (?) Delhi; boxed-in halogen-lit grid space in (?)Tokyo; such concise but eloquent and complicated scenographies.

2) DURATIONAL The lesson of post-Punchdrunk immersive theatre - that spectators should author their own montage - transplanted with such grace that 50 minutes of screen time (far beyond my usual tolerance) flew past in complete absorbtion.

Those tiny, unique and unrepeatable glints of serendipity created by viewer-initiated jumpcuts and juxtapositions delight and disturb a thousand times more than a manufactured story arc. This diptych!

3) SENSITIVITY TO AUDIO Allowing wild sound (gravel underfoot, cloth billowing) & music space - arguably, centrality - was an heroic leap of faith, but the minimalism was in itself riveting. And again, allowing the user to splice together their own audio world: inspired.