Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Courting humour

<strong>Legal Fictions</strong><br /> Savoy <strong>Baby Girl; The Miracle</strong><br /> Cottesloe

issue 22 March 2008

Legal Fictions
Savoy

Baby Girl; The Miracle
Cottesloe

Edward Fox is having the time of his life. The creepy but compelling Jackal has evolved, late in his career, into a specialist light comedian. He’s seriously funny playing the lead roles in a double bill of John Mortimer plays, one from the 1980s, one from the 1950s, which have proved surprisingly resistant to the passage of time.

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