Agent Blonde, Jane Blonde, has to save the world from an evil, criminal genius. So she teams up with top spy hack Ian Flemish to travel hop from alpine mountain top to remote Pacific island; and from submarine to space in her quest to serve King and country.

If a wonderfully silly spy parody directed by a cruciferous brassica is up your strasse, then this is the show for you

And if this sounds more than a little familiar, it's because Spy Movie: The Play! is a great, big, lovely jubbly, in-yer-endo-filled, full-of-spunk homage to the Bond movies and the iconic cinematic moments they have engraved on our collective consciousness.

It's all here. Opening titles with legs akimbo: check. The sorts of dodgy accents which can only mean criminal genius: check. Naughty names which make you giggle like you've just looked up your first four-letter word in the dictionary: check. Directed by a cruciferous brassica: check.

If you enjoyed The 39 Steps or the Goes Wrong plays, you will love this. Multi-roleing, daft props, panic, puns, and of course big action (?!) numbers abound as our plucky team of four actors seek to find a 'Producer' for their pitched script. It's a wonderfully silly concept which lampoons and loves the genre in equal measure; and one which (for the most part) is a safe bet for the whole family.

The apparently 'scratch' nature of this genre is more fiendishly difficult to pull off successfully than it might appear; and the cast leap and frolic across the stage with a rictus energy and chutzpah which is hard not to admire.

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Agent Blonde has 24 hours to save the world. The only things standing in her way are dastardly villains, an outrageous plot, and... a lack of funding. When Hollywood rejects her script, a frustrated screenwriter invites you, an audience of producers, to a one-night-only presentation of The Greatest Spy Movie (n)Ever Made! From two of the minds behind The New Musketeers (Trinity Theatre) and stars of The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Spy Movie: The Play! is a new hilarious homage to Bond movies and fringe theatre suitable for the whole family.