Skylight at Wyndham's Theatre

I have never ever paid anything like £64 for a theatre ticket. And the best seats were well over £100. But the current vogue for starry quality drama still sells out theatres and sends them live to cinemas all over the country. It was the irresistible combination of two of my favourite actors Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, together with a David Hare classic directed by Stephen Daldry that I could not resist. And I have to say, it was worth every penny.

Bill Nighy was even better than I had expected from the dazzling reviews. One critic said it was Bill Nighy playing Bill Nighy playing Tom Sargeant but in a really very good way. I cannot disagree. His character is articulate, powerful, selfish and witty. And Nighy is also very very funny. Carey Mulligan as Kyra (a name straight from the mid nineties when the play was first performed) seems to be a little pathetic in her early conversation with Matthew Beard's Edward, but she comes into her own as the play develops as her first class degree shines through. Another critic said she was ten years too young to play Kyra, but on my arithmetic at 29 she is spot on. It is Nighy who first played Tom in 1996 (taking over from Michael Gambon) who is slightly too old. But who cares. He was brilliant.

As for the plot, did he do it on purpose, the reason why Kyra walked out on him six years ago? A wonderful play about love, politics and trust is superbly directed by Stephen Daldry. A clash of cultures from the nineties is as relevant today as it ever was. And what a surprise. After all that intensity, the ending is sheer bliss.