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They spent most of their rehearsal week mapping out movement and honing timing – who enters and exits where and when and where do they need to stand with what props at any given moment. It meant we had to really work out the choreography of it – who was going to be where, how we would work that out and so on.” “We did quite a lot of long shots,” says Whelan, “that would connect us all up within its frame as we were revealed by the cameras. The episode not only looks theatrical but the cast say filming it was like making theatre too. You get to do things you don’t normally get asked to do and that’s what all actors want.” And the things that they do are always slightly left field. Their work is always pushing boundaries with people that they get.
“A lot of us in the acting world love what Reece and Steve do. “I’ve done loads of theatre so doing this actually felt very freeing,” says Joseph, who plays Pantalone, the gang leader. “ They couldn’t do just cinematic or doing the broad commedia dell’arte acting – they have to be able to do both and judge that balance in the same way that Reece and Steve have in the writing.”
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“It was really important to get actors with a huge range,” says series producer Adam Tandy. The actors were chosen precisely because of a background in theatre and an understanding of stage performance. And most of my work is live or theatrical as I've gotten older as well.”īishop, Whelan and Paterson Joseph’s casting was done to suit the material. And I always have been and I think it's because I come from a theatrical background, you know? When I was very young, I used to do mostly theatre. “I felt like this is how I should be doing everything,” says Bishop, “because I'm very physical with my comedy. He helped the cast with the mask work and the physicality of their performances. “We had a week’s rehearsal, which you never get in television,” says Kevin Bishop, the actor and comic who plays Arlecchino, the classic servant to two masters. “And there were two directors, a theatrical director and a televisual director.” The theatre director in this instance was none other than Cal McCrystal, who directed the smash-hit commedia farce One Man, Two Guvnors starring James Corden. Wuthering Heist is a feast of stagecraft in everything from its structure to its production. But though that episode was about theatre, it wasn’t theatrical in its conception and execution. They have done theatre stories before, most notably in series one’s superb The Understudy. Inside No 9 is an anthology show with every half-hour episode telling a new story bound only by that single, titular rule. “In the end, people will watch this episode, and think, ‘They're wearing masks because they're doing a robbery.’ You won't really even think about the fact that all the characters are sort of archetypal tropes and characters from commedia.” As Shearsmith points out, even the masks, those most obvious symbols of suspension of disbelief, do double time. Those who couldn’t give a fig for 16 th-century dramaturgy will just find the whole thing a blast, because the language of comedy is universal. Those well versed in commedia tropes and rules will enjoy watching them be both observed and subverted. Wuthering Heist not only works – it works on several levels. “It's a massive mash up that shouldn't work,” says Gemma Whelan, who plays Columbina (the perky maid commedia archetype). It’s like Reservoir Dogs meets Benny Hill.
It references everything from Line of Duty to Fleabag, while masked characters break the fourth wall, fall over, pun relentlessly and double-cross one another.
But the story is told in a genre-bending style that is by turns hugely meta, surprisingly violent and very silly. In this case the 9 is a warehouse from within which we learn of a jewel robbery gone wrong.
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Called Wuthering Heist (the first of a torrent of puns) – it follows Inside No 9’s single abiding rule – that every episode must take place inside somewhere labelled "9". The first episode of the sixth series of Inside No 9, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s anthology series, is a bravura piece of storytelling based on a commedia dell’arte structure hybridised with a heist flick. The irony, then, is that this year’s most original piece of television is a hymn to theatre. Many wonder whether theatre will ever recover.
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Auditoriums have sat empty in a year when streamers like Disney+ have signed up 100 million plus subscribers. The coronavirus crisis has devastated theatre while television has thrived.