'The Man Who Was Thursday' at Lifeline: There's an anarchist plot, a Scotland Yard plant and a deeper satirical message that never gets in the way
Chaos is dull. That which goes right is poetry," declares Gabriel Syme, the protagonist in G.K. Chesterton's 1908 metaphysical/satirical novel, "The Man Who Was Thursday." But in Bilal Dardai's nimble adaptation, now onstage at Lifeline Theatre under Jess Hutchinson's direction, it's the chaos...