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The week in theatre: The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Miss Littlewood; The Winter's Tale " review by Susannah Clapp

Aidan Turner brings swagger to the Irish Troubles, a tribute to Joan Littlewood lacks her revolutionary spirit, and there's a twist in the Globe's Winter's TaleSeventeen years after its first staging, The Lieutenant of Inishmore looks as grisly and giddy as ever. This is the play that seems to jeer at terrorists, having as its antihero an ex-IRA man who is besotted with his cat. Its comic daring forces an audience to…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM on July 8, 2018

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