"There will be national plays and performances staged.
What are they made of – plywood?" At the launch of the party's general election campaign at the Royal Society of Arts in London, Bennett was asked whether she was letting her party down with such media performances.
"At first the Germans thought they were being generous to the Jews, allowing us to play," says Anka. "Then they saw how wonderfully the music was played, and presumably had the idea to stage performances, and make films, for the outside world".
I now realised that this is what happened every night, during the two years in the West End and in countless performances the length and breadth of the country.
While the practice has mainly been restricted to finishing off performances of actors who died midway through filming – such as Paul Walker in Fast and Furious 7 – it has also been utilised by advertisers, keen to attach famous faces to their brands.
Reading festival, 2000, and on the main stage one of the most punk-rock performances in living memory is taking place.
Critics may worry that she is too tribally Labour and that her media performances are too wooden at a time when politicians are under pressure to show a bit more personality, reach out to a broader audience and show a willingness to say what they really think.
There is much doubling, which helps close the generational gap, and excellent performances - especially from the women in the cast.
This was the beginning of what she now calls "live cinema": performances that come alive somewhere between the chaotic scramble on stage and the smooth, cinema-quality output on the screen.
It is The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game which are the two films expected to predominate at this year's Baftas, the weirdly fortuitous pairing of two distinguished, intelligent, slightly theatrical performances and two brilliant British scientists cursed with the traditional qualities glibly associated with genius: shyness, loneliness, and disability of various sorts.
This year's Rite of Spring centenary has certainly unleashed a flood of tribute performances.
