THEATRE

WILLIAM COOK

IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY The Mill at Sonning, until 12th April Is Ray Cooney, 92, Britain's most unfashionable playwright? In 2012, when Cooney co-directed a movie of his biggest stage hit, Run for Your Wife ('as funny as leprosy'), film critics queued up to give it a ferocious kicking. It was widely cited as one of the worst British films ever made. Yet showbiz history is littered with awful films of fine plays. Run for Your Wife ran for nearly nine years in London's West End, Cooney's plays are regularly revived in theatres throughout the land, and Cooney has become a byword for British bedroom farce, Britain's answer to Georges Feydeau. Isn't it terribly snobbish for critics to deride a beloved farceur who sets out simply to entertain? I…

You're reading a preview of

The Oldie (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

DiscountMags is a licensed distributor (not a publisher) of the above content and Publication through Zinio LLC. Accordingly, we have no editorial control over the Publications. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including those made in Publications offered on our website, are those of the respective author(s) or publisher(s) and not of DiscountMags. DiscountMags does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, or usefulness of all or any portion of any publication or any services or offers made by third parties, nor will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information contained in any Publication, or your use of services offered, or your acceptance of any offers made through the Service or the Publications. For content removal requests, please contact Zinio.