Play fest: Spying on a Thursday
The billing for the play tells you to come in disguise, the programmes pretend to be for something else, a man in the stalls is a secret agent with a gun and as we go to the interval you are told there may not be a second half… I was bound to love it. And for a Thursday night it was absolutely perfect.
Spyski is a spoof spy story with Oscar Wilde overtones as the story is acted by actors who were originally intending to put on the Importance of Being Earnest and instead perform the real life international espionage they have been inadvertantly caught up in - complete with babies in rucksacks left in left luggage, Ronnie Corbett killing someone with a golf ball, a super spy improvising a radio from an IV drip, and some even more ridiculously farcical events.
I avoided the critics beforehand but it got some good reviews. Although
Time Out’s six stars might’ve been a bit biased since the magazine featured prominently as a murder weapon!
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