The Upstart Crow is a deliriously silly adaptation of the acclaimed sitcom – review

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Ben Elton’s TV smash has traded the safety of the small screen for the slings and arrows of the stage

may draw on dog front. But it includes a bear, who comes in handy for gags about the difficulty of realising some of Shakespeare’s stage directions, supremely “Exit, pursued by a bear” in. This creature has been rescued from the cruelties of a Bear Garden by the Bard’s female sidekick .

 

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