Some people love old-time Vaudeville: Smith & Dale in "The Doctor Sketch" on "The Ed Sullivan Show," The Three Stooges, British knockabout comedy and eccentric dancing. If you're one of them, you'll love the ridiculous, slapstick, corny, very British comedy revue, The Play What I Wrote. Sean Foley, Hamish McColl and Toby Jones recreate the antique shtick with flair, falls, and fol-de-rol. Foley takes John Cleese's physicality to new heights of dementia with a rubber body like they don't make any more. Act 2 does a sendup of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" utilizing a guest star. The night I saw it, John Lithgow cavorted with them, and it's always fun to see a star being ridiculous.
The absurd set and costumes by Alice Power, particularly in the second-act dungeon scene, are hilarious, and so is the choreography by Irving Davies and Heather Cornell. If this foolish, funny nonsense is your cup of balderdash, you'll have a great time.
