The lives of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore have been thoroughly excavated in the theatre over the past year, but Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde's play makes a superior contribution to the genre. It is an entirely enjoyable and rather poignant gallop through the pair's troubled relationship - from the early Beyond the Fringe days, in which the council estate-born Moore was very much the underdog patronised by the languidly confident public-school-educated Cook, to their final pairing together. The play is set during a Parkinson-style chat show in 1982, by which time Moore was a Hollywood superstar and Cook was descending into alcoholism, having lost all ambition at the age of 24.
As with so much Edinburgh theatre, production values are in short supply, and some of the staging is irritatingly clumsy. But this piece also has an awful lot going for it, drawing not just on the duo's comedy set pieces (to good effect) but delicately charting their painful relationship. With a little nurturing, this could be developed into something very good, and Scott Handy and Kevin Bishop are cracking as Pete and Dud.
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