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A devil of a good time is had in Noel Coward's divine comedy Fallen Angels at Brighton's Theatre Royal this week.
It was one of Coward's earlier plays (first produced in 1925) and critics at the time felt it was "vulgar, disgusting, outrageous, shocking, nauseating, obscene and degenerate." Happily or otherwise (depending on your point of view!), Roy Marsden directs with style and sophistication, ensuring that the hilarious piece is firmly removed from a dusty shelf and it fizzes rather than creaks.
In lesser hands this story of two lifelong friends who are thrown into a tizzy after receiving postcards with a promise of...