Hampstead; Theatre Royal Haymarket; Vaudeville, all LondonEcstasy: by which Mike Leigh means desperation under a candlewick bedspread. His restaging of this 1979 play, originally devised at Hampstead with Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters, is a significant occasion. It's the first time Leigh has returned to one of his old plays. It is, in terms of tickets sold and cash taken, the most successful production in the theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PM on March 19, 2011