Comedy, down to a fine 'Art'

JUST under two years old, Mandarin theatre company Nine Years Theatre is on a roll - translating and staging classic works such as Edward Albee's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? and Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men to spectacular success.

Its latest production of 'Art', a 1994 play by French dramatist Yasmina Reza, bears all the hallmarks of its growing reputa…