The big price hikes to the cheapest seats since Timothy Sheader took over the Donald and Margot Warehouse mean I don't go as often, and when I do I'm usually alone as not everyone wants to spend £32 to look at the back of an actor's head. When that actor is Russell Tovey though it's a pretty safe bet that both I and my usual theatre companions will be interested, actually, especially with the promise of him being the only actor on stage: Tovey plays Joe, a 999 operator who's not exactly a natural fit for the job; frequently tetchy and impatient with the callers, many of whom are wasting his time and police resources, but some of whom could do with a more sympathetic ear. As it turns out this
isn't what he wants to be doing - a police officer suspended from his usual duties, this is his last night on the phone lines before he has to attend a hearing about the event that left his and his colleagues' jobs on the line.
