Wyndham's Theatre, London: The days of new plays opening direct into the West End are mostly a thing of the past. And when one like Barking in Essex turns up, you realise why: it feels packaged rather than inspired, a bottom drawer play from a veteran TV screenwriter who died in 2007 at the age of 77, and so hasn't lived to see it produced. Clive Exton was best known for his work on Jeeves and Wooster, Poirot an…
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:59AM on September 17, 2013