Hogarth's Progress review " dazzling double bill charts artist's path to woe
Rose theatre, KingstonKeith Allen excels as the embittered old painter in the second of Nick Dear's two plays following the life of William HogarthThere is a palpable irony to the umbrella title of Nick Dear's two plays about William Hogarth. The Art of Success, originally staged by the RSC in 1986, offers a rumbustious portrait of the artist as a young man in his creative heyday. The new piece, The Taste of the Town…