Lyric, HammersmithJeremy Dyson, who co-wrote the Lyric's long-running Ghost Stories, has now adapted five of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected. The result is something of a mixed bag. One or two of the tales strike me as shaggy Dahl stories with easily foreseeable twists. But, at its best, an admirably short, 80-minute evening generates a pleasurable suspense and conveys Dahl's peculiar fascination with human crue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52PM on January 24, 2011