Jasper Britton, Steven Blakeley, Rupert Hill (2), Siobhan O’Kelly

These two one-act plays by Sir Peter Shaffer are both short and bitter-sweet comedies performed as a matching pair on the same night. They give the audience a fascinating window into the turbulent attitudes to love in the 1960s through a combination of comedy, pathos and drama.

The Private Ear is set in a musky London bedsit, where reclusive Bob, normally used to giving his full attention to his record collection, calls in a favour from Ted, his slick, confident friend, to help him treat his date, the beautiful but shy Doreen, to a slap up meal.

The Public Eye takes place in a swanky London accountancy office, where uptight Charles is confronted by Julian, an eccentric private detective he has hired to investigate Belinda, his young wife, whom he suspects of infidelity.