A thoroughly enjoyable read of what should turn out to be a thoroughly enjoyable play if you are lucky enough to get a production.

Very brave to take on this material: a hostage situation, a gun waving around and a bunch of fairly unlikeable anti-heroes stuck in a room together – yet it is all carried off with a delicious sense of underplay and irony that makes the play charismatic even if the characters in themselves are not.

My brief and pretty much only criticism is Ms…