As a new piece at the Barbican shows, first-person recollections bring theatre performances back to life more vividly than reviews ever canNot long ago I had a conversation with a man in a regional theatre bar who told me about seeing Maggie Smith play an acidly funny, magisterially tragic Hedda Gabler when he was in his 20s. It had been on his first date with the woman who eventually became his wife, and who had re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AM on April 20, 2011