Having graced our television screens in the mid-nineties with cult comedy favourites Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard not Judy, Richard Herring has always favoured humour with an anarchic edge.
It would be all too easy to dismiss James Robinson’s rather obvious 1920s updating of Mozart’s comic opera as ‘Allo, ‘Allo meets Hercule Poirot at the Seraglio.
This is an accomplished piece of writing and directing that tackles head on attitudes to mental health using the device of satire in a way that Jonathan Swift would have found totally appropriate.