Double trouble in chaotic Comedy

Anne McElvoy on Theatre

THE ARRIVAL OF THE Christmas season is a reminder that while the West End is the beating heart of British theatre, it is in what used to be called the “provinces” — now more delicately in arts-speak the “regions” — that most of the country experiences plays, old and new. It seemed the right time to settle into the stalls outside the capital and take pot luck on a touring production at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, which has been open ten years, a strong local hub for visiting productions from Glyndebourne to stand-up, and a riotous Kent annual panto. To be a mite less obliging, the Marlowe has, as the architecture critic, Rowan Moore, put it at its inception a decade ago, “too much of the office block in the detail…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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