Mr Foote's Other Leg, Hampstead Theatre, review: Richard Eyre directs with admirable command of the play's tricky tonal palette
One can say, with some certainty, that Samuel Foote (1720-77) would have relished the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch where a hopping monoped auditions for the role of Tarzan: "I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is " neither have you". Indeed, you could argue that this Truro-born actor, playwright, theatre-manager, pioneer of "improv" and dangerous alternative comedy, helped to inspire it. Simon …