Flat Spin, the second play in Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy Damsels In Distress, takes a somewhat darker, more bizarre turn.
Actress Rosie Seymour (Alison Pargeter) finds herself looking after a luxury apartment in London's Docklands as a favour to an uncle who is in hospital. She is upset at just losing a part in a BBC classic serialisation.
When a neighbour arrives (Bill Champion), she is determined to have at least one evening of romance but, oddly, tells him she is the leaseholder of the flat.
From this one deception, she is plunged into a bizarre world of drugs-running and the work of a secret surveillance department of British intelligence.
Once again, Ayckbourn crafts his play well and lets the laughs come from the character and the situation - the more bizarre it gets, the darker and funnier it becomes.
Pargeter is superb as Rosie. As in the first play, Game Plan, she is a mistress of movement, her choreography is faultless and her timing spot on.
As a somewhat naive seducer, she is hilarious, not least when trying to remove a pair of tights while in a passionate clinch.
Pargeter is surrounded by a talented cast which has been wonderfully drilled by Ayckbourn, who also directs the trilogy.
Ayckbourn has this knack of making you sum up a character within seconds and then making you feel guilty when you realise your jugement was totally wrong.
Robert Austin, as the head of the surveillance team, becomes a typical Ayckbourn character - authoritarian but with an underlying humanity.
In a small role as the stupidest ex-SAS minder of all time, Tim Faraday is also magnificent.
This is good, solid and honest theatre.
For tickets, call 01273 328488.
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