If you want a knockabout night at the theatre where a small cast blunder comically through a big story, you could do worse than Patrick Barlow’s adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 thriller. These days, you could also do a lot better.
The play ran for nine years in the West End from 2006 but this revival looks tired compared to successors in a similar vein, most obviously the sublime mini-musical Operation Mincemeat.
