★★★☆☆“Am I bovvered?” “How very dare you!” “Titter ye not!” Ten years after she ended regular series of her BBC sketch show, Catherine Tate has resuscitated her best-loved characters and catchphrases — as well as jokingly appropriating one or two of other people’s — for her first live tour. Which means that Tate gives us, as often happens in a live compendium from a television sketch favourite, what we want and a bit too much of what we expect. You go to see Tate, you want to see Lauren the stroppy teenager, Bernie the inappropriately lubricious Irish nurse, Derek the insistently in-the-closet bald man, and most of all her greatest creation, Nan the east London pensioner. Yet what you long for is to be given…

Source: The Times November 14, 2016 12:00 UTC