More farce please, we’re British
Tamsin Outhwaite and Mark Rylance in Matthew Warchus' 2007 revival of Boeing Boeing. Photo: Tristram Kenton
As the Menier Chocolate Factory is set to revive Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus, David Benedict looks at the great British theatre staple of farce – often snubbed by the high-minded, but, at its best, a box-office guarantee
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