In the 1990s, the BBC had a popular flat-share comedy, Men Behaving Badly, about a pair of giggling bachelors who were scolded and dominated by their mummy-substitute girl-friends. The author, Simon Nye, has written a historical crime caper about the theft of the crown jewels in 1671, as Charles II prepared to celebrate his tenth year on the throne.
Lloyd Evans
Forgettable stuff: The Crown Jewels, at the Garrick, reviewed
Plus: only a psychopath could endure the inhuman bilge of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman
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