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Why shouldn't the National let its hair down once in a while? The new production of the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, being presented as part of the Travelex £10 season in the NT Olivier, is the perfect summer treat. And also, it so happens, the perfect piece for the scaled-down scenic resources of the £10 aesthetic, since the set it gets here is precisely the one this show usually gets, namely simple representations of the three houses in Rome, circa 200 BC, in front of which all the action takes place.
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But that’s to single out only two of a richly inhabited ensemble that elsewhere includes a brilliantly pompous turn from Philip Quast as the vain and muscular warrior Miles Gloriousus, and two sweetly appealing leads from Vince Leigh and Caroline Sheen.
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