Neil Cooper gives the stage production four stars.

Given that it was the over 60s demographic that swung the victory for the No camp in this week's Scottish independence referendum, it's something of a surprise that Scotland's most curmudgeonly OAP double act, Jack and Victor, didn't lay their cards on the table last night in the first of their twenty-one night stadium-sized stage version of Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill's scurrilous TV sit-com.

In the end politics didn't matter much in a show that started off simply enough as a series of routines were played out across Navid's open all hours corner shop and the legendary Clansman bar where Gavin Mitchell's bar-man Boabby held court to Winston, Tam, Isa and Navid.

Once we're ushered into Jack and Victor's front room, however, things take a turn for the meta, as Kiernan and Hemphill take full advantage of the live arena for a series of self-referential gags that resemble something Pirandello might have written if he'd concentrated on popular pantomime produced on the scale of a WWE Smackdown show.

That this involves a loosely strung-out plot involving Jack and Victor's adventures with an ipad, a home-made bionic leg and a hallucinogenic Bollywood finale involving Isa's very special mushroom soup and a massed take on the Slosh, and Michael Hines' production becomes even more surreal. While one may long to see the show in a more intimate Fringe environment beyond the big screens the action is beamed on, Kiernan and Hemphill's writing is as sharp as ever and the ensemble comedy play, aided by Paul Riley, Sanjeev Kohli, Jane McCarry plus a couple of guest stars, is superb in a night that gives the audience the best of all worlds.