There are countless things to do in London on a freezing February evening like this, but tonight I’ve decided on a bit of Samuel Beckett in Brockley. Three bits, in fact, served up by the Angel Theatre Company. Director John Patterson has revived a trio of Beckett’s later short plays: the rarely-performed Catastrophe and the two mesmerising monologues Rockaby and Not I. Not…

“We’re serious about the peace bit you know. If we make people laugh, that’s enough.” John Lennon, who said these words while wearing a big pair of ill-fitting white pyjamas, was a comedy fan. And nowhere was he more keen to stress the importance of laughter than at the legendary ‘bed-in’ protests, staged with his…