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Burke and Hare review " a very merry romp about murder by Michael Billington

Jermyn Street theatre, LondonWith a cast of three playing multiple characters, this is an energetic telling of the cadaver-supplying criminalsYou learn something new all the time. I had always assumed that Burke and Hare, who in 1828 supplied Edinburgh anatomists with cadavers, were grave-robbers. But this show, written by Tom Wentworth and first seen at the Watermill, Newbury, reminds us that the couple were cold-bl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PM on December 3, 2018

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