And this survived when Max Gilles – with a Guy Rundle script – appropriated Humphries’ character for his impersonation of John Howard. He’s associated with Michael Frayn who wrote that dazzling reverse-mirror farce Noises Off which was directed by that Australian stage magician Michael Blakemore who won two Tony awards in the same year – one for Frayn’s Copenhagen and the other for Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate. When I met Michael Frayn with his wife Claire Tomalin over dinner they were in their eighties but wonderfully spry and funny. Hugo Weaving and Heather Mitchell as the old couple and with extraordinary power and presence Bob Morley with Bojana Novakovic as his ravishing – and by turns stormy and cold – beloved. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2023 and is available on Stan.