Menier Chocolate Factory, London: The popularity of this dark comedy of manners by Mike Leigh, aside from its intrinsic merits, rests very much on the television recording of the original production as part of the BBC's Play For Today series that, thanks to a strike at ITV attracted, 16 million viewers. The nation warmed to this achingly bleak observation of the British class system as it flourished in the late …
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:03AM on March 9, 2012