I would say that it was somewhat successful. It was clearly aimed at avid fans of the TV series – most of the scenes and jokes and characters were adaptations from elements from recent broadcast work.
Andolph remarked that the audience was a bit “Nathan Barley”, which was true on at least two levels:
1. The audience were an annoying bunch of discourteous idiots. The man sitting directly behind Andolph fidgeted constantly, leaving his seat every half-hour or so to answer an important and somehow unavoidable telephone call. The couple sat behind me seemed to be in love with their own voices (or hard of hearing) – repeating gags a few seconds after the performers had delivered their lines. The young and trendy audience also had a very liberal disregard for the conventions of theater seating, large groups of Wimbledon trendies filing in even fiften minutes after the performance had commenced.
2.I sat two rows directly behind Richard Ayoade the actor who plays Moss in the new Channel 4 comedy “The IT Crowd”, who also played a supporting role in the TV version of Nathan Barley.
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