In a Rough Year, London Theaters Embraced Comedy and a Deluge of Shakespeare

NYTimes.com: Was it the sight of the matinee idol (Jamie Glover) leaping up a set of stairs, the gravity-defying aplomb amplified by the fact that his shoelaces had been tied together? Or maybe it was the wild-eyed, sunken-cheeked octogenarian waiter (Tom Edden) with a habit of tumbling backward into some unseen abyss?