Widowers' Houses " review
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeWhen the writer and critic William Archer first met George Bernard Shaw in the reading room of the British Library, he had a copy of Das Kapital and the orchestral score of Tristan and Isolde open on the desk. So it is no surprise that Shaw's first staged drama " initially written in collaboration with Archer " should be a socialist polemic with a Wagnerian theme.Like Wagner's gre…