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Agnes Colander: An Attempt at Life, Jermyn Street Theatre review - Naomi Frederick shines in 'new' Granville Barker by Heather Neill

A rediscovered early work by one of the giants of Twentieth Century theatre focuses on a woman's struggle for independenceRemembering meeting Harley Granville Barker when casting him as Marchbanks in Candida, Shaw described the twenty-three-year-old as "Altogether the most distinguished and incomparably the most cultivated person whom circumstances had driven into the theatre at that time." He judged his perform…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:42PM on February 17, 2019

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