Duke of York's, LondonIf the break-up of a marriage tends to be chaotic, the problem with Peter Nichols's Passion Play (1982), I used to think, was that its contrivance created order, was too entertaining to be true and betrayed its own subject: betrayal. Safer to focus on Pinter or Stoppard, whose infidelity dramas (Betrayal and The Real Thing) were written at roughly the same time. But David Leveaux, who has direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on May 11, 2013