MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
Trotters hit the jelly tot
PETER MASON recommends a hugely entertaining musical version of Only Fools and Horses
Pride of Peckham: The cast of Only Fools and Horses Pic: Johan Persson
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
JAN WOOLF is bowled over by a major retrospective for the YBA artist
LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
Only Fools and Horses
Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London
BONNET de Douche, as Del Boy would say.
This vibrant, endearingly chaotic musical version of one of Britain’s favourite sitcoms is well conceived, well wrought and, above all, great fun.
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