Playhouse, LiverpoolAll creatures are mysterious. A child with the kind of brain that doesn't allow for co-ordinated movement or communicative speech or gesture is more mysterious than most. Such a child is 10-year-old Josephine. Nicknamed Joe Egg by her parents " in blackly comic fashion, because she's always sitting around doing nothing " she is the eponymous subject of Peter Nichols's 1967 play. Back then, the cri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM on April 13, 2013