West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsIn the USSR of the 1950s, playwrights, like other artists, had to conform to Stalin's notions of socialist realism; in 1950s UK, it was the West End, "Aunt Edna" and the censor they had to please. Terence Rattigan, whose centenary is being celebrated this year, flirted with "experimental" writing as a student but gave it up in favour of pleasing that "nice, respectable, middle-class, mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM on February 26, 2011