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Theatre

Captures the rapturous gaiety of the original: Globe's Twelfth Night reviewed

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

2:22 — A Ghost Story

Noël Coward Theatre, until 16 October

Twelfth Night

Globe Theatre, until 30 October

The new Lily Allen vehicle opens in a spruced-up terrace in the East End. Allen plays a self-satisfied yuppie, Jenny, whose cynical husband has invited two ghastly friends over for a bitchy booze-up. At first sight this looks like a Hampstead comedy from the 1970s but it’s a horror story, and it has a huge black hole at its core.

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