Lost classics can be a real treat to work on.

On receiving the brief for Rosemary Tonks’s spiky comedy, The Bloater, I was hooked (excuse the pun) for two reasons. Firstly, the title. It felt suitably intriguing, and visually incongruous, both repellent and playful. Second was the endorsement by Stewart Lee, not only the affirmed 41st best stand-up comic ever, but fellow Midlander and, in my humble opinion, all-round genius – of sorts.