My Mother Said I Never Should/The Ladykillers review " love trumps farce
★★★★☆/★★☆☆☆ Theatre by the Lake, KeswickCharlotte Keatley's 1987 work about mothers and daughters is a wonderful gesture of empathy, while a staging of the Ealing black comedy fails to find the funny Charlotte Keatley has an acute ear for the way mothers talk to daughters " and how daughters respond. Straddling four generations, yet structured as if time doe…