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Theatre

Muswell Hill reviewed: a guide on how to sock it to London trendies

Plus: a much-needed corrective to paedophile hysteria in How I Learned to Drive at the Southwark Playhouse

28 February 2015

9:00 AM

28 February 2015

9:00 AM

Muswell Hill

Park Theatre, until 14 March

How I Learned to Drive

Southwark Playhouse, until 14 March

Torben Betts is much admired by his near-namesake Quentin Letts for socking it to London trendies. Letts is one of the few individuals who enjoys the twin blessings of a Critics’ Circle membership card and a functioning brain so his views deserve serious attention.

The title of Betts’s 2012 play Muswell Hill shifts its target into the cross hairs with no subtlety whatsoever.

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