Brian Rix once defined farce as tragedy with its trousers down. He obviously had not seen Val May‘s dismal production of Charley’s Aunt. Brandon Thomas‘s hoary old chestnut is not a work of great wit ...

The Aldwych farces of Ben Travers have a venerable place in our theatre history, lip service often paid to them as a bridge between Pinero and Alan Ayckbourn – via the trouser-dropping antics of Brian ...