The Miser review " a Molière mugfest by Susannah Clapp

Garrick, London Heavily laboured jokes sink Griff Rhys Jones and Lee Mack in this 17th-century comedy of mannersIt may be that, all unwittingly, I have had a farsectomy. I " mostly " applaud, or clapp, Sean Foley and Phil Porter's attitude to adapting this 350-year-old comedy. They recognise the immediate lethal equivalents in the avaricious anti-hero of Molière's The Miser, and want to make the comedy look non-fust…

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