Theatre review: Travels With My Aunt

It’s 28 years since - in an effort to save money, one hard-pressed season - the then Citizens’ artistic director Giles Havergal quickly conjured up an adaptation of Graham Greene’s great 1969 novel Travels With My Aunt, to be performed on an almost-bare stage by four men wearing ordinary business suits. Havergal even appeared in the show himself, as well as writing and directing; and so was born one of those legends of theatre, in which a piece of work hastily created for the simplest of practical reasons became a global hit, delighting audiences from London to New York and far beyond.