Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti review " socialist satire starved of humour
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe comic talents of Elaine C Smith and Steven McNicoll can't save Denise Mina's stilted, gender-switching adaptation of a Bertolt Brecht comedyBertolt Brecht and Finnish writer Hella Wuolijoki's 1940 comedy Mr Puntila and His Man Matti has often been likened to a meeting of Karl and Groucho Marx, on account of its witty socialist perspective on the seesawing relationship between canny chauffeu…