Trafalgar Studios, LondonThe Donmar's West End season is driven by the desire to promote young directors, and it has an excellent one in Chris Rolls. He has grasped the key point that this 1938 play by Jean Cocteau is, in Jeremy Sams's witty translation, more Oedipal farce than high tragedy. Without overpitching the play's inherent camp, Rolls also allows his first-rate cast a free rein. Cocteau presents us with a vi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PM on November 29, 2010