Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Out of sorts at the RSC

<p class="p1">Plus: a follow-up to Fleabag at the Soho Theatre that's just as good, original, explicit and outrageously funny</p>

issue 22 July 2017

The RSC’s summer blockbuster is about Queen Anne. It’s called Queen Anne. It opens at the Inns of Court where drunken wags are satirising the royals with a naughty sketch about boobs and beer guts. Everyone on stage pretended this was hilarious. A few audience members did too, out of politeness.

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