Shaw's once-shocking play pairs Imelda Staunton with her real-life daughter, Bessie Carter How do you make Bernard Shaw sear the stage anew? You can trim the text, as the director Dominic Cooke has, bringing this prolix writer's 1893 play in under the two-hour mark, no interval. And you can introduce a non-speaking ensemble of women in period bloomers and the like as a silent commentary on the depredations indicated …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:18AM on May 24, 2025