Duchess, LondonTim Firth is clearly not a man to let a bad idea go to waste. Twenty years ago he wrote a one-act play, Man of Letters, about an encounter between age and youth on a Batley rooftop. This is apparently his second attempt to turn it into a full-length play, but it remains a desperately slight, whimsical piece that tries to get by on a few good jokes.When we first meet Frank and Alan, the former is a vete…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58PM on March 11, 2011