Review: RUTHERFORD & SON by David Gordon
Githa Sowerby caused a major cultural sensation when, in 1912, London’s Royal Court Theatre produced Rutherford and Son, her first play. Not only was the work greeted with universal acclaim, but with shock; shock at the fact that a first play could be so accomplished, and shock when the author, who wrote under the pseudonym K.G. Sowerby, was eventually discovered to be a woman. Rutherford and Son, which one Lon…