Theatre review: Mother Clap's Molly House
Mother Clap's Molly HouseNational Theatre, London Rating: ****Mark Ravenhill clearly likes to have it both ways. In this wonderfully exuberant new musical play at the Lyttelton, he celebrates Sodom like there's no Gomorrah. But the satirist in him also attacks the commodification of sex and the resultant loss of love. The result is an evening rich in rudery and ambivalence. The first, undeniably more brilliant half …