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Masks and Faces review – A comedy of infidelity … starring Michael Billington

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The former Guardian critic, along with Evening Standard scribe Fiona Mountford, take to the limelight in this fruity vintage marital drama

Victor Kiam liked his shavers so much he bought the company, Remington. The Guardian former chief theatre critic Michael Billington liked Masks and Faces so much he ended up in it.

During his five-decade stint at the Guardian, the critic praised this 1852 comedy by Charles Reade and Tom Taylor in a “surprising revival” at London’s Finborough theatre. “I particularly liked the two critics, Snarl and Soaper,” he wrote, little knowing he’d one day land the part of Snarl opposite fellow critic Fiona Mountford as Soaper in a remotely recorded YouTube reading.

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