Tartuffe in duplicate… and a critical to-and-fro
What happens when a critic not only writes his own version of a Moliere classic — but then reviews a rival version.
Hello/goodbye to Hello/Goodbye?
Today Lyn Gardner delivered one of her blistering one-star pans for Hello/Goodbye at Hampstead Theatre, which has newly transferred this week to the mainhouse after its earlier premiere downstairs in 2013. Dubbing it an “inoffensive but entirely pointless two-hour romcom”, she went on to say that Shaun Evans and Miranda Raison “have all the allure of two slightly defrosted chicken nuggets.