Le Navet Bete served up comedy gold with Dick Tracy at the Tacchi-Morris

You remember the ad line which went 'If Carlsberg did'.....It made me think if Le Navet Bete's production of Dick Tracy was a song it would be 'I feel pretty' from West Side Story.

The lyrics go: "I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright and I pity any girl who isn't me tonight.

"I feel charming, Oh, so charming, It's alarming how charming I feel..."

It was that clever as what was created on stage by this talented quartet was a colourful comic caper cavalcade for a crimefighting crusader-namely Dick Tracy.

The plot, was the fall of Dick Tracy at the hands of Big Boy Caprice and then his rise from disgrace back to hero again. Or as he would say 'just doing my job'.

The way in which all this was served up to the audience was glorious. This was a mesmeric tantalising mercurial mirth of mischief as Le Navet Bete showed a novel way to skin a comedy cat. You do it with fast paced comic action interlaced with the wit of one liners normally associated with a a television show like Police Squad or a movie like Airplane.

An example of this comedy would be: 'Surely you can't be serious? Don't call me Shirley!'

This comedy ensemble kept the audience on the edge of their seats waiting for the next word and the next piece of action.

Comic inventiveness rained down upon the stage. This was effervescent energy abound, it resembled comedy chaos but this was well calculated comedy which only looked like chaos.

The main bad guy, Big Boy Caprice who I felt was definitely written like and certainly sounded like Tony Montana as played by Al Pacino in the film Scarface. He even utter the line "Say hello to a my little friend". In the case of Scarface, Tony was talking about a machine gun, Big Boy Caprice was talking about a snake.

When I interviewed Le Navet Bete production manager, Alex White, he promised the audience would see something which was "fun, very daft and very silly".

What he said was not under sold it did exactly as he said and then some.

To paraphrase Dick Tracy, Le Navet Bete were 'just doing their job' and what a job. There was plenty a of zest and zing in this production.

Catch it whenever you can.

It is just like The Beatles say in their song 'Being for the benefit of Mr Kite! " A splendid time is guaranteed for all."