Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonTerry Johnson gives Stephen Jeffreys's 1994 tale of Restoration depravity the full rumpy-pumpy, but Cooper's Rochester is stuck in surly modeOn stage, everything has a consequence. In life there is only a "listless" chain of events. Stephen Jeffreys makes this cogent argument for the attraction of the theatre and puts it into the mouth of his scabrous hero, John Wilmot, second Earl of R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AM on October 2, 2016