Three Farces - Slasher & Crasher/Grimshaw Bagshaw & Bradshaw/A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion
From: Thursday, 2nd June 2011
To: Saturday, 25 June 2011
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Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 5 June 2011
Here’s a real collector’s item, and a fascinating farcical evening: three one-act skirmishes by the Victorian playwright John Maddison Morton, who was recommended by Gordon Craig to Kenneth Tynan as “the funniest playwright that England had ever had.”
Tynan, in turn, told John Gielgud in a letter that Morton was funnier than Feydeau. And one of the three plays on this bill, An Unwarrantable Intrusion, was presented on Tynan’s watch – to negligible critical acclaim, it has to be said – at the National Theatre in 1968, with Derek Jacobi playing a flustered suitor interrupting his putative father-in-law’s privacy and breakfast.
That role is here taken by the marvellous Edward Bennett (who stood in for David Tennant as Hamlet), and the avuncular Snoozle – who says he’d like to go shooting if only there were a few more grouse in St John’s Wood – by a whiskery, peppery Clive Francis. The...
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Orange Tree (Producer)
John Maddison Morton (Author)
Henry Bell (Director)
Sam Dowson (Design)
John Harris (Lighting)
Katy Mills (Costume)
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