The Real Inspector Hound

This Tom Stoppard play was very clever whilst very confusing at the same time. To be honest, I am still slightly confused. There were good performances from Mark Cox and Hugh Farey who began the play as theatre critics who then proceeded to talk over the actors in the ‘play’ that they were supposed to be watching. The play was a typical ‘who done it?’ with the obligatory body on the floor that was completely ignored for most of the play. There was clever interaction between those watching and those ‘acting’ and Joshua Herriott, Emma Gibbons and Katie Evans gave stylized performances reminiscent of the farces that used to be so popular. Gaynor Smith was very good as Mrs Drudge and reminded me of Mrs Overall in Acorn Antiques. The switch from Critic to Actor is when I started to lose the plot but the end result did seem to make sense finally, I think… An interesting evening: thank you Conquest and I thought the set was great.

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