Jermyn Street Theatre, London : Artistic director Anthony Biggs' determination to rediscover forgotten plays is admirable, but they can't all be winners. St John Hankin's account of a single mother daring to return to her conventional upper-middle-class family with her eight-year-old illegitimate child seems pretty creaky now. When in 1908 Lillah McCarthy (Mrs Harley Granville-Barker) took to the Hayma…
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:52AM on February 6, 2015