Michael Simkins is the Neighbour of whom nobody can remember his name.  He is trying to share the cost of repairing the adjoining wall and I laughed out loud when Elsa called him “a tiny bit passive aggressive”.  Her role is to very much say what we would never dream of saying.  

Robert Jones’s sets are a treat – the deck of the yacht with the Mediterranean Sea beyond and back home, in London suburbia, the open plan living room. 

The performances are outstanding under Mark Gatiss’s direction.  Reece Shearsmith in trying to identify whether a visiting policeman PC Junkin (Marcus Onilude) has blood in his faeces after eating Elsa’s sandwiches, and keeping a straight face.  Amanda Abbington who keeps telling Peter to do something about Elsa and ducking out of it herself.  Above all Frances Barber is so thoroughly obnoxious as  Elsa but we are kept guessing as to whether she is a serial murderer.  

The result is a middle of the road comedy the writing of which I find lacking in anything but superficial humour, she says passive aggressively!