Neville’s Island: a play from the era of Men Behaving Badly – when women were seen as exotic excrescences

Neville’s Island

Duke of York’s Theatre, in rep until 3 January

Spine

Soho Theatre, in rep until 2 November

Start with a joke. Neville’s Island. Get it? Laughing yet? Are your ribs splitting into pieces? It’s a cracker, isn’t it? Well it’s a pun, at least, on Devil’s Island.

Tim Firth’s play, regarded as a modern classic, premiered 22 years ago in Scarborough: Ayckbourn country, and it shows. Four corporate numbskulls on a team-building exercise get stranded on a remote islet with no hope of rescue.

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TaggedAde Edmondson, Alan Ayckbourn, Duke of York's Theatre, Frends, Men Behaving Badly, Miles Jupp, Neil Morrissey, Neville's Island, Robert Webb, Soho Theatre, Spine, Theatre, Tim Firth

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Neville's Island: a play from the era of Men Behaving Badly - when women were seen as exotic excrescences

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