Anne McElvoy on Theatre
THE RETURN OF THEATRE has been a choppy business — venues are still chary of committing to large-scale productions with large casts outside the doughty return of till-rattlers like Anything Goes at the Barbican.
Stage-starved audiences hanker for some more recent magic dust sprinkled with flair of — to channel Big Will — “this wide and universal theatre”. Critics have, alas, had a meagre come-back diet to choose from for intellectual ambition, for which reason the revival of Nick Payne’s (just finished a sell-out run at the Vaudeville and about
