Too Clever by Half " review by Lyn Gardner

Royal Exchange, ManchesterSergei Eisenstein's famed 1923 staging of Aleksandr Ostrovsky's satire featured clowning, performers swinging on ropes and acrobatics. Paul Hunter's revival, which relocates the play to a 1960s Moscow oddly in thrall to decadent western pop culture, may not draw upon the circus, but it is no less strenuous. It's more comic caper than hard-hitting social critique.The play focuses on the poor,…

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