Play of the week: A Mad World, My Masters, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Comic flair: The play is stiff with entendres (Manuel Harlan)

After the National Theatre's hit Goldoni update, One Man, Two Guvnors, the RSC and Sean Foley have relocated Thomas Middleton's city satire to a mid-1950s Soho of criminality, pervy repression and moral laxity.

The milieu proves liberating for Middleton's world of venal and venereal goings-on in a play that is stiff with entendres. Hustled along by blowsy jazz and jiving, the production revels in the play's relish for the con-artistry of frauds and in its knowing theatricality.

Richard Goulding gives a performance of comic flair as Dick Follywit and Steffan Rhodi excels as nerdy husband Mr Littledick. The RSC has a whopping success on its hands.

0844 800 1110, rsc.org.uk, to 25 October