INTERVIEW BY RICHARD ATKINSON
Sylvester McCoy is reunited with his spoons in this publicity still from A Joke.
Sylvester McCoy stands on a darkened stage in a woolly hat and a nightie. He’s having an existential crisis. Over the course of an hour, Sylvester and his co-stars Richard Oliver and Robert Picardo ruminate on the nature of jokes, stories and life, in Dan Freeman’s new comedy A Joke – a crowdfunded show for the Edinburgh Festival.