Orange Tree, RichmondThe playwright sugar-coated his lively critique of the evils of the housing market that remains all too relevant todayThat people should face eviction so that others can make money from their housing is a persistent wrong, as the recent campaign on behalf of the residents of London's New Era estate so publicly demonstrated. Bernard Shaw's 1892 play, Widowers' Houses, is often read as a condemnati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on January 4, 2015