Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonPatrick Marber revives Alan Bennett's tiresome 1973 comedy with its trouserless salesman, randy vicar and retrograde Britishness "From end to end I've searched the land looking for a place where England is still England." So says Lady Rumpers, not a present-day Brexiter but a disgruntled aristocrat from Alan Bennett's 1973 home counties farce. If this play is a snapshot of bygone Briti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM on December 14, 2021