The Breadwinner, Orange Tree Theatre
Although overwhelmingly remembered now as a novelist, Somerset Maugham was best known during his lifetime as a playwright. "England's Dramatist", as the newspapers christened him, produced more than 20 plays spanning the length of his career, outdoing contemporaries Shaw and Rattigan for popular and critical success. But his was not an enduring fame, and with his work now strikingly absent from the theatrical reperto…