Director Nadia Fall has taken that patriarchal purveyor of footwear Henry Horatio Hobson and his family out of their natural habitat - a traditional proscenium arch theatre - and into a different time, the 1960s. Does this staple of British drama, written in 1915 but set in 1880, benefit from relocation from theatre plush to the open air and from the era of button boots to sling-back stilettos? Up to a point.read mor…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:46AM on June 17, 2014