Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis update with Elaine C Smith focuses on Scotland's landowning class but struggles to make the satire funny There are sad drunks and there are happy drunks. Elaine C Smith's Mrs Puntila is a relentless drunk. In Denise Mina's cross-cast Brecht update, the actor ploughs ahead with the sturdy determination " and lack of nuance " of a seasoned boozer. In this socialist satire, she is a millionai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM on March 4, 2020