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The Painkiller review " a farce without force by Susannah Clapp

Garrick, LondonKenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon labour for laughs as hotel guests thrown together by circumstanceGradually the stage is picking to pieces accepted ideas about the 1960s. Martin McDonagh's comic, lacerating Hangmen showed how riddled with misogyny and racism that supposedly liberated decade was. Now the latest offering in Kenneth Branagh's Garrick season demonstrates how very 50s the 60s could be. Sean F…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01AM on March 27, 2016

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