Royal Exchange, ManchesterSimon Bent's adaptation of Howard Jacobson's hilarious novel is charming and well acted but lacks dramaIn Howard Jacobson's hilarious, award-winning, semi-autobiographical novel of 1999, the first-person narrator recalls his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in 1950s Manchester " an introverted youth, saved from solitude by a talent for ping-pong. Jacobson loops, chops, flicks, smash…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AM on July 10, 2016