There's nothing funny about the ingredients that make up Anthony Nielsen's 2002 farce The Lying Kind – the death of an elderly couple's daughter in a car accident, paedophilia, animal cruelty, mental illness, old age, heart disease. Yet in the true tradition of classic British dark comedy he has written a gag-a-minute, clever farce that manages to not only have the audience in stitches throughout but also ruminate on the question, "Can lying ever be an act of kindness?" The central characters of the play are a pair of totally inept British bobbies Blunt and Gobbel who have the unenviable... This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.
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