The wheels of post-war industry were briefly halted on Monday during the opening Edinburgh date of Graham Linehan's new take on William Robinson and Alexander Mackendrick's classic 1954 Ealing comedy.
Designer Michael Taylor's elaborate revolving set became stuck as Shaun Williamson's crazed Romanian gangster was supposed to be clambering out of the upstairs window of old Mrs Wilberforce's topsy-turvy house. The result not only added an accidental comic frisson, it also inadvertently symbolised an entire country attempting to push its way towards a new society, but unable to budge.
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