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Women Behaving Badly? Women Performing Badly, more like. Ha ha ha.

Yet that dismal attempt at humour is still far funnier than anything you'll hear in this dire show

It's a series of loosely themed sketches, all delivered in that overly-deliberate, theatrical style last in comedic vogue in 1950s plays on the Light Service. If this painfully bad acting is typical of that turned out by the Leicestershire Youth Theatre (where this talentless duo first met), then don't put your daughter on that stage, Mrs Worthington.

The needlessly complicated set-up involves an encounter with Eve on the London Underground, prompting a tour of womanhood through the ages to show her how it all turned out.

Yet despite having the entire history of the world to scour for material, Sophie Revell and Kerry Higgins still couldn't muster a single joke.

Instead, we have to suffer dull, soulless sketches about how a suffragette missed her chance to throw herself under a horse because her friend needed the toilet or how a Dark Ages witch concocted a form of medieval Viagra. Laugh? Err, no, actually.

In fact, the best bit of the show was the music. Not theirs, but the Blues Brothers band who started up in the next room about halfway in.

Now when another show, muted by several inches of concrete, proves more engrossing that the one you can actually see, it's probably safe to say you're onto a loser.