Physically alone on stage throughout, Tovey, tense as someone watching the countdown timer on a bomb, is Joe, triaging overnight emergency calls in a police control room.

ADAPTED BY Chloë Moss from Den Skyldige, a 2018 Danish-language film by Swedish director Gustav Möller, The Guilty is billed as a solo show for Russell Tovey, whose theatrical track record runs from Alan Bennett’s The History Boys to the National Theatre revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. In truth – levels of reality being central to both the script and director Felix Barrett’s staging of it – the show is far more complex and thrilling than conventional monologues.

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