The Knight of the Burning Pestle review " dimwit swordsman skewers theatre snobs
Barbican, LondonA pair of Lion King fans blunder into a highbrow drama in Declan Donnellan's gallant update of the class-collision comedy In Francis Beaumont's 1607 burlesque, a grocer and his wife disrupt a performance of a citizen comedy, The London Merchant, to demand a heroic role for their apprentice, Rafe. It is still a good joke about the collision of separate worlds and you can approach it in one of two ways.…