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Smack Family Robinson " review by Michael Billington

Rose theatre, KingstonTen years ago Richard Bean wrote this black comedy about a drug-dealing family living in leafy suburbia for Live Theatre Newcastle. Now it has been relocated to Kingston's plush neighbour, Petersham, and proves two things: that Bean, early in his career, was better at gags than at plot, but that he also saw the comic mileage to be got out of aberrant families long before shows such as TV's Shame…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PM on April 4, 2013

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