★★★★★ After welcoming the audience personally at the door and offering everyone a cup of tea and a hobnob biscuit, Lockyer begins his story. He was a successful actor for the RSC, playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at Stratford. He had some hours to kill before a performance.

★★★★☆ Their great detective is a lady of formidable intellect and with an even more formidable French accent, called Artemis Arinae. That’s a name not picked by chance, for Artemis is the goddess of hunting; and as for ‘Arinae’, I believe that’s a kind of parrot – surely a pun on Poirot?

★★★★★ The model apartment of the title is a metaphor for something outwardly perfect, serviceable, whilst concealing a different, uncomfortable truth. Max (Ian Gelder) and Lola (Diana Quick) have come to Florida for a short break from New York.

★★★☆☆ Sebastian (Robert Lindsay) is a critic with one successful novel under his belt. He is a crusty old leftie, a nudge away from being a curmudgeonly old bore, who has by his own admission for the best part of twenty-eight years been in a loveless marriage, which has nevertheless produced a son.

★★★★☆ Phyllis Logan gives a performance to rank alongside the best of the triumphs hosted by the Ustinov over the last few years . . .The play is a cage fight between morality and literature, the outcome of which is deliciously ambivalent. Switzerland, a place famed for its neutrality is thus an apt motif for a play about moral turpitude and its consequences for psychology and creativity.