You know it must be the holiday season when comic caper-loving Told by an Idiot run riot in the Royal Exchange. Expect the theatre of the absurd, with glimpses of Keystone Kops and Marx Brothers-style zaniness. This time, director Paul Hunter has delved into 19th-century Russia and come up with Alexandr Ostrovky's self-styled "savagely funny comedy" Too Clever By Half, in the late Rodney Ackland's adaptation.read mor…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:17AM on July 16, 2013