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Farm Hall review: Spied on in an English country house, explosive rows of the Nazi Oppenheimers, writes PATRICK MARMION


Why didn't the Germans build the bomb first? These are some of the intriguing questions posed by Katherine Moar in her -drama set in the dying days of World War II .

Christian Patterson and Felix Hayes add touches of Harry Secombe and cartoonish caricature as two other madcap monarchs; while Rachelle Diedericks — as Pericles’s virtuous daughter — lives up to her billing as ‘a palace for crownèd truth to dwell in’. You may therefore, like me, find yourself rooting for a rapid conclusion to the reduced 90-minute jaunt through the comedy about fair Rosalind (Letty Thomas) chased by handsome, lovelorn, poet-wrestler Orlando — played by Luke Brady with one leg in a cast, following a painful accident. The laboratory with the hatching egg (fingers wriggling through a napkin) and a rampaging T-Rex (high-viz cycling helmet, parking cone fixed to rear end), before the kids are confronted by a raptor (pair of swimming goggles), ahead of the final escape in a helicopter (cue spinning brolly).

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