Dominic Cooke's imaginative revival improves on Emlyn Williams's 1938 play Let's talk repertoire. Over the past decade the range of British plays, especially those from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, has shrunk in state-subsidized theatres. You can no longer easily see work by Shakespeare's contemporaries, Restoration rakes or Georgian comics. George Bernard Shaw is in hiding. English 19th-century problem plays …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:06PM on April 24, 2022