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Theatre

When Mr and Mrs Clever-Nasty-and-Rich met Mr and Mrs Thick-Sweet-and-Poor

Plus: the first professional production of Noel Coward’s banned This Was A Man is a real find

26 July 2014

9:00 AM

26 July 2014

9:00 AM

Invincible

St James, until 9 August

This Was A Man

Finborough, until 2 August

Torben Betts, head boy at Alan Ayckbourn’s unofficial school of apprentices, has written at least a dozen plays I’ve never seen. Invincible, my first encounter with the heir apparent, is a sitcom that pitches London snobs against northern slobs. The script is fascinating because it demonstrates, in concentrated form, the limitations of the Ayckbourn method and the narrowness of his psychological palette.

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