Written and performed by comedy duo LipService (Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding) Inspector Norse is a jumble of all the Scandinavian stereotypes you can think of: Ikea, moose, Abba, meatballs, trolls, coffee, long winters, a paucity of small-talk, open sandwiches and knitwear. Some are clumsily shoe-horned into the plot, but Fox and Ryding have taken some of them in interesting directions. The best of these, in my opinion, is the beautifully knitted set: knitters all over the country have contributed woollen houses, cats, coffee pots and mugs, clocks, spanners, icicles, leaves, fireworks and, best of all, entrails, to create a rather endearingly caricatured Sweden-on-stage. Indeed, the whole play is a very fond mickey-take of the entire Scandi-crime genre, although based on a very thin veneer of imported Nordic culture.

Our detective, Sandra Larsson, is modelled after Sara Lund, and is identifiable by The Jumper and the badly-timed personal phone calls she keeps receiving. As well as The Killing references, there are also nice insider jokes referencing Wallander and Stieg Larsson's trilogy which will tickle die-hard fans, if only because they are missed by most of the rest of the audience.

The show isn't elegant in any way, nor slick, but LipService obviously very much enjoy performing it; I got the impression that at the heart of it all was a pair of good friends who enjoy messing about on stage, but the audience, too, was made to feel welcome and included. So much so, in fact, that we were invited onto the stage during the interval to effect the transition from winter to spring by hanging knitted leaves on a bare tree.

The show is continuing to tour well into winter, so if you enjoy silly comedy full of ridiculous costume changes, delinquent moose, unusual uses for yarn, and spotting nerdy Forbrydelsen references, then you still have a chance to catch it.