Norman’s Coach & Horses, LondonRobert Bathurst stars in an hour-long version of the comedy, staged in the pub where Keith Waterhouse sought inspirationIn Keith Waterhouse’s 1989 comedy Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, the Spectator columnist recounted his life during an all-nighter at his favourite Soho pub, the Coach & Horses. The play has been given a 30th-anniversary revival, somewhat uneasily combining topicality with datedness.The unexpected relevance comes from this being a site-specific staging, in a locked-in Coach & Horses, to publicise the attempt of its independent landlord to resist a takeover by a pub chain. Continue reading…
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