Some nifty staging and a strong performance from Tom York as two warring brothers cannot enliven this outdated caper
Hitchcock influences … Tom York as Rupert Farrant and Paul Kemp as Major Powell in Corpse! Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardianerald Moon’s 1983 comic crime caper is set in the year of Edward VIII’s abdication. So its revival, in the light of the Duke and Duchess of SussexThe abdication of 1936 hangs over the play , though the crowning of his brother, George VI, is not mentioned. Tension between brothers is central to the story here: Evelyn and Rupert Farrant are at war with each other.
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