Gorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival Even the mighty Almeida is allowed the occasional dud and it's sure as hell got one at the moment with Vassa. Maxim Gorky's 1910 play (rewritten in 1935) about a matriarch in extremis some years back proved a stonking West End star vehicle for Sheila Hancock and offers a chance to go hell-for-leather that should set the pulse racing on both side…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:48PM on October 22, 2019