A Mad World My Masters " review
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThomas Middleton's brilliant 1605 comedy has been cut, "edited" and updated to 1950s Soho by Sean Foley and Phil Porter for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whether past masters need such patronising treatment is an issue for another day. I can only report that, while the audience enjoyed it, I found Foley's production strenuous fun and at its best when it stuck closer to Middleton's original.T…