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The Entertainer review " Kenneth Branagh's clapped-out comic steals the show by Michael Billington

Garrick, LondonBranagh is highly watchable as the music-hall veteran Archie Rice, but John Osborne's portrait of a collapsing culture is undercut in a misjudged productionKenneth Branagh has so artfully shadowed the career of Laurence Olivier that it was inevitable he would some day play Archie Rice in John Osborne's 1957 play. But, while Branagh is never less than fascinating to watch and the play makes a fitting cl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PM on August 30, 2016

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