Duvets, pillows, more underwear, crumpled newspapers, pile up as a debris diary of days passed by.
Centre stage slumps a bed.
Mugs are suspended from the ceiling. The back wall is covered, head to toe, with yet more sheets. We could relax, sit back, and indeed, with all that bedding, it was tempting to lie down, particularly as there was space aplenty. Live Bed Show, part of the newly sexed-up Theatre Royal's autumn of theatrical Viagra, is an unfamiliar work by comparison with The Studio's opening show, John Godber's Happy Jack, and so it will take time to build an audience. The main voice you hear through the dialogue is that of Smith, not literally of course, but as with Ben Elton's plays, the characters seem mouthpieces for a stand-up turned playwright.