Its’ creepy transfer from TV to the stage works better than I was expecting - but of course it does - you’ve got the masters of TV gore, suspense and chilling comedy - right up close in the flesh, doing their ‘thing’ to the best of their ability.
There’s a reason they’ve constantly entertained TV audiences since the nineties - because they go where actors and comedians fear to tread, using clever but horrifying humour to tug at the darkest reaches of our minds that don’t and won’t normally see the light of day.
Fans from the TV series will inwardly rejoice as they recognise scenes from classics including the poignant Bernie Clifton’s Changing Room, Sardines and A Quiet Night In.
Don’t get me wrong - there’s laughs a plenty - but also shocked intakes of breath, watching between fingers, groans of horror, and jerking back in your seat (and the obligatory apologies to everyone sitting behind you!).
Well if Stage/Fright - just arrived at Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End - is anything to go by - the answer is an all-shrieking, high kicking, blood letting, jump-scarey, terrifyingly resounding ‘no’.
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