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Review: Rebus McTaggart at Perth Theatre

Jun 6 2008 by Alison Anderson

AS a Taggartee and an enthusiast of Taggart's east coast equivalent (of sorts), Rebus, this reviewer had been spitting mad at missing Richard Thomson as Rebus McTaggart at last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was pleased that the show was in the Perth Festival programme.

So this willing detainee in Perth Theatre was disappointed to find Thomson committing crimes against acting, singing and comedy as he took his good-sized audience through a day in the life of Ecclefechan's top policeman.

In his one-hour show, Thomson should have been arrested for bad diction and un-PC script, the best laughs coming thanks to the unusual suspect, Ella.

An innocent member of the audience, Ella was persuaded to join Thomson on stage to help enact a murder.

Ella saved the show, and saved Thomson from being hung in public!

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