The Critic Magazine

Killer jokes

FROM ARSENIC AND OLD LACE to The Man who Came to Dinner, the haplessness of polite people confronting wickedness in a domestic setting is a staple of farce. In the hands of Steven Moff at, co-creator with Mark Gatiss of the BBC’s Sherlock, the tradition has a new addition in The Unfriend, which is a welcome arrival from Chichester festival at London’s Criterion.

It’s a while since the subterranean theatre at Piccadilly has had a success after hosting the long-running hits, A location which is

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