Inside Job, by Brian Clemens is an Ian Dickens Production, with an all-star cast comprising Matt Healy, who set female hearts racing as Matthew King in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Christopher Villiers who is best known for his part in Emmerdale as solicitor Grayson Sinclair and Michelle Morris (Jess Haworth in The Knock).
On the Costa del Sol, a professional safe-cracker enjoys a hedonistic life in the sun, until the stunning Suzy sweeps into his world with an offer he can’t refuse. But what starts out as a simple act of theft, rapidly spirals into an intrigue of diamonds, murder, bluff and double-bluff.
It is described as The Mousetrap meets Lock Stock with astonishing plot that twists and turns like a demented snake. Inside Job is written by Brian Clemens, creator of television’s The Avengers and The Professionals.
Shani Smith, one of our shropshirelive.com reviewer’s, went along to The Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, to see the show:
inside job – reviewed by Shani Smith
The Wolverhampton Grand Theatre – 6 July – 10 July 2010
We arrived at the box office and got our tickets for the dress circle and settled down to watch the first half of the play.
It was set in a villa in Spain, during the Costa Del Crime era. The first few scenes were intriguing and captivating. Matt Healy, Michelle Morris and Christopher Villiers kept you guessing what was going to happen next. There was lots of twist and turns to the plot with a few bangs which kept you guessing how it was going to unravel.
As we broke for the interval it had the audience thinking what’s going to happen next, listening to other people around us, like us, they had thought they had worked the plot out.
We took our seats for the second part of the performance. As similar to the first half, the second part of the play was as mysterious as the first, keeping you guessing and in suspense.
As the plot unraveled there was a final twist to the end of the play which explained and surprised us all. Towards the end of one scene the props let Matt Healy down, but as a true professional, he put it back together and carried on with the scene. There is mild bad language in the show but it’s in context with the plot.
So if you would like a pleasant enjoyable evening with Comedy moments, mystery and intrigue you should go and see this show.
