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glorious swoop of comedy steals the show
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THEATRICAL larceny on the grand scale was committed last night at
the National. Michael Feast and Michael Williams, as itinerant,
Russian actors down on their luck, seized Alexander Ostrovsky's
nineteenth century satire upon sex and financial greed in the
mercantile classes and ran away with the entire play in a glorious
swoop of vintage comedy. This was not so much scene-stealing, as
wholesale theft. Yet Feast and Williams were vitalising rather than
unbalancing Anthony Page's astutely cast ...
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