Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

The Guardian didn’t much like Noel Coward’s Relative Values – but you will

Plus: a play about paedo-paranoia that implodes under the weight of its internal contradictions

Dazzling: Patricia Hodge, Caroline Quentin and Rory Bremner in ‘Relative Values’ [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

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