Ten cooks will produce classics such as chicken curry 'with an ingenious twist' or a traditional roast to find a winner over eight episodes.

Fortunately, an ingenious twist - albeit one that film buffs will find strikingly familiar - means that the play manages an unexpected increase in intensity that redeems it from unalleviated dry debate.

The latter was an ingenious twist, revealing that there was more than one state in play here, its methods and motives ostensibly more noble, but still unsavoury at best.

Meticulous clarity, an ingenious twist in punctuation, modulation and intoning, coupled with an import of soulful meditation on every syllable, both lyrical and musical, marked his singing.

Witty dialogue, a clever plot with ingenious twists and marvellous light comedy acting.