LOVE, HATE AND MONEY AN ELECTRIFYING MIX

MAN AND BOY ★★★★ NATIONAL THEATRE UNTIL MARCH 14 nationaltheatre.org.uk

- With STEFAN KYRIAZIS

Now I say, old chap. What the devil's going on here?Terence Rattigan plays, like Flare Path or Deep Blue Sea, once celebrated then discarded as monuments to buttoned-up Brits bubbling over, are enjoying reevaluation and revivals, usually with prim period tone intact.

His dark 1963 dramedy about 1930s financial, emotional and sexual skulduggery is set in a seedy Greenwich Village flat.

Yet director Anthony Laus cast bounces around like billiards on a green baize floor, leaping on and off three conference tables.