One of the key things I took away from this show is that Lutoners were known as Mad Hatters because fumes inhaled during the making of hats, the main local industry, turned their brains. Lacerations to their tongues, from licking straws to make them pliable for weaving into straw boaters, gave them their characteristic accent. Later, as a prime manufacturer of munitions and armour during the Second World War, the town was bombed to bits. Now Luton is most famous for its depressing airport, Stacey Dooley and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson.
The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return review: full of sweaty urgency
