Theatre by the Lake, KeswickSeán Aydon's laboured attempts to shriek the play into life with overstated and almost unintelligible clowning only serves to flatten Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy You can see the temptation. You have an almost 250-year-old comedy with antique language and an obsession with gossip that could concern nobody but the idle rich. Why wouldn't you try to jazz it up a bit? That seems to h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM on March 15, 2024