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Hugh Grant takes his career to the next level with a great performance as Jenkins’s partner and husband in all but name, a failed thesp who sympathises with Florence’s big dreams and wishes only to bring her some happiness.

Letts said in the Sunday Times Culture column: "After so much frenzied movement and whizz-bang theatrics, the fruity purr of veteran thesp Oliver Ford Davies as the button moulder brings a welcome calm to proceedings, and relief at last from the whining Scottish accents."

The multilingual thesp emanates the colossal fortitude of someone who’s shed her last teardrop, but salvaged enough hope to carry on and morph into a stone-faced combatant.

Now Delaney’s deluded ageing thesp hits the road once more, in a new confection rejoicing in the title The Sound of Mucus.

When Alan Rickman died last week, perhaps surprisingly one of his most fondly-remembered roles was as Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest, a self-regarding thesp driven to typecast despair by his lot in life, endlessly doing the rounds of sci-fi conventions.