Bedroom Farce, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick: Perhaps it is because we expect a comedy with 'farce' in the title to be hysterically funny at all times that Stephan Escreet's production of Alan Ayckbourn's 1975 comedy plodded rather than sparkled. The first act tried hard, without success, to recover from a long opening scene leading some of the cast to fall into the over-acting trap in the second half to compensa…