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Lip Service - Inspector Norse (or The Girl With Two Screws Left Over)

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
From: Tuesday, 13th November 2012
To: Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Our Review: starstarstarstar

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Our Review: starstarstarstar

Anne Morley-Priestman - 13 November 2012

A self-assembly Swedish crime thriller is how Inspector Norse – the latest piece of deceptively casual nonsense from LipService – subtitles itself. Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding take television's current fascination with Scandinavian crime novels and series (not to mention a certain detective's taste in knitwear and the seemingly ubiquitous craze for flat-pack furnishings) and fashion them into an evening which has some very willing audience participation as well as constant gales of laughter.

There's an engaging use of puppetry and those two-dimensional landscapes and interior scenes common to folk art the world over. What at first sight appears to be a cheap edition of a book, several times price-reduced, opens to reveal the main locations in sequence as a woman detective muses on her calling (Ryding). She is much given to introspection and constantly bedevilled by phone-calls at the least appropriate moments in connexion with a new s...

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