Gleaming with comic gore, intricately written, showered with adulation, replete with cryptic clues, Inside No 9 ended its television run last year – on, of course, its ninth series. Now its creators, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, have whipped up a theatrical version, directed by Simon Evans.
Inside No 9: Stage/Fright is not a lazily dumped transfer from screen to stage, but nor is it completely new invention. An anthology of the anthology series, in which each star-sprinkled episode busts into a new genre behind a different door marked No 9, it is something like an evening by a tribute band in which the impersonators turn out to be the real thing.
