Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

No laughing matter

Comedians<br /> Lyric, Hammersmith Liberace, Live from Heaven<br /> Leicester Square Theatre

issue 24 October 2009

Comedians
Lyric, Hammersmith

Liberace, Live from Heaven
Leicester Square Theatre

They gushed, they cheered, they purred, they sighed. When a young Richard Eyre read Trevor Griffiths’s new play Comedians in 1975 he prounounced it ‘great’ on the spot.

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