Theatre Royal Haymarket, London Hugh Whitemore's witty but dull homage to the quintessentially English poet lacks the cleverness and drama of his Stevie Smith play"Arbitrary and irrelevant" was the Manchester Guardian's view on John Betjeman, whose crisp verse detailed a vanishing England of buttered toast, country churches and suburban tennis clubs, when he was appointed poet laureate in 1972. You might say the same…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM on June 1, 2017