Drowning on Dry Land - review
Jermyn Street, LondonLong before it became trendy to attack celebrity culture, Alan Ayckbourn satirised it brilliantly in his 1988 Man of the Moment. He returned to the theme in this play, which had its Scarborough premiere in 2004: the year that The X Factor made its debut. And, even if the fame game is now madder than even Ayckbourn foresaw, it's salutary to be reminded that comedy, at its best, can have a mor…