Billy Liar , Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester: Spilling from the old sideboard where Billy has hidden the piles of unsent calendars, which typify his deceptions, is an old children's annual. It's called Billy The Kid, which as good a signpost as any to Stockport-born Sam Yates' first production for the Royal Exchange. Harry McEntire's Billy certainly is childish, to the point where it seems faintly ridiculou…