There is no one better to explore and reveal the foibles and functions of British society than Alan Bennett. His two plays, An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution, performed together as Single Spies, give us an insight into the murky world of espionage but, more importantly, reveal an awful lot more about our society . . . While this is Bennett not perhaps as his absolute best, the two plays making up Single Spies are both typical and full of the wit and insight one rightly expects . . .

I really enjoyed it, I went with the flow. The set was magnificent and the costumes, props and feel of the thing really placed us back in the decade of Bovril, ITMA and powdered milk. All the performances were excellent – former Dr Who squeeze Louise Jameson is the nominated star but I especially liked the very camp and ever-so-slightly over the top Oliver Gully as the eccentric Christopher Wren. It’s not Ibsen, but it doesn’t claim to be.