The Entertainer review " an off-key swan song
Garrick, LondonJohn Osborne's venomous 1957 play lends itself well to the Brexit era, but Kenneth Branagh's farewell Garrick production fails to igniteIt seemed, John Osborne said, "as dangerous as exposing the royal family to politics". When his play The Entertainer was first staged, in 1957, it had a double-barrelled force. It showed England, after the Suez debacle, as a declining power, looking back on former glor…
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