Billy Liar review teenage dreamer is as witty as ever in a fine revival
Royal Exchange, ManchesterHarry McEntire is wonderfully fidgety as Keith Waterhouse's hero, who would be a Twitter phenomenon todayBilly Liar is unavoidably a play of its time: it takes approximately 40 seconds for Billy's gran to deliver the first of a series of off-colour remarks about black doctors. Yet it's also a play for our time, depicting the hyperactive imagination of a young man prone to inventing multiple …