LAST WEEK saw Matt Lucas and David Walliams brought their brilliant stage version of Little Britain to the BIC. Tomorrow it's the turn of The League Of Gentlemen to show just how well TV comedy can transfer to the live stage.
It's given them a sensationally hard act tomorrow, but with the decidedly unhinged vagaries of Royston Vasey at their fingertips they might just turn in another triumph.
Actor, writer and founding member of the League of Gentlemen team, Mark Gatiss, notable for playing deranged butchers and murderous vets, says they love exploring the dark, sinister underbelly of their imaginary world.
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Occasionally they even manage to shock themselves. Speaking on the eve of the new tour he told me: "One of the new of sketches (written with Jeremy Dyson) is so terrifyingly politically incorrect that it made the others blanch.
"I think it may have to be slightly modified."
The show is, as its name suggests, done panto-style. It also finds The Gentlemen reverting to their original style of working with a script that is more narrative and full of little interweaving stories.
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