(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/24; Photo: Deeply deceptive dramas … W Somerset Maugham, 1957. Photograph: Jane Bown/The Observer.) A new revival of The Circle is a reminder of a dramatist who smuggled vital messages into broad crowdpleasers Never trust what dramatists say about themselves. Noël Coward spent decades disclaiming he had any purpose beyond entertainment […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:00PM on April 24, 2023