National theatre, LondonWhen Carl Zuckmayer's play was staged by the National at the Old Vic in 1971, it yielded a great comic performance from Paul Scofield. Good as Antony Sher is in the current revival, there is something disproportionately vast about both Adrian Noble's production and Anthony Ward's design: a picaresque fairytale has been turned into a gargantuan spectacle.It is, admittedly, a fairytale based on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM on February 6, 2013