Arts Theatre, LondonThe BBC faces cutbacks; audience ratings are examined with microscopic precision; the axing of a popular soap star provokes national headlines " in some respects Frank Marcus's engaging 1965 play appears curiously topical. What marks it down as a period piece, in Iqbal Khan's somewhat heavy-handed revival, is the introduction of a comic clairvoyant who comes across as a cut-price version of Coward…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AM on October 9, 2011