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The few laugh-lines the script gives them, though delivered perfectly well, can’t help but fall a little flat as the audience waits for Rigby’s next punchline. Gardner holds his own well as the shout-y, pencil-pushing superintendent, but the rest at times feel unfairly placed opposite a comedian of this calibre. The rest of the cast (Tony Gardner, Tom Andrews, Mark Hadfield, Ro Kumar and Ruby Thomas) have a pretty daunting performance to live up to. Thankfully, the focus is almost always on the Maniac. Razor-sharp comic timing and frankly herculean levels of stamina ensure that when the focus is on the Maniac, there’s never a dull moment. Combining a variety of voices and impressions with physical clowning and a bag full of props, Rigby gives a masterful comedic tour-de-force.

He plays the anonymous “Maniac,” a fourth wall-breaking, ludicrously energised actor set on causing as much mischief in the Met’s headquarters as possible. In practice, though, it really is Daniel Rigby’s show. Eddie Izzard is still lighting up the Garrick Theatre with her solo rendition of Dickens’ Great Expectations last month, Ruth Wilson took to the Young Vic for a 24-hour endurance feat with The Second Woman, and last week Succession’s Sarah Snook was announced as the one and only cast member for the West End debut of Sydney Theatre Company’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.Īccidental Death of an Anarchist, Tom Basden’s adaptation of Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s 1970 Italian farce, might not be a one-man show by technicality. The one-person play seems to be having a bit of a renaissance in the London theatre scene at the moment. Here’s our Accidental Death of an Anarchist review.

Daniel Rigby is a comedic powerhouse in Tom Basden’s eviscerating police satire.

Romeo and juliet play script famous lines