Watermill, NewburyOn its 1932 premiere Somerset Maugham's play must have seemed as if a small bomb had been detonated in the West End. Audiences expecting a witty comedy from the country's most popular playwright were reduced to silence by Maugham's anti-war polemic that charts the corrosive legacy of the first world war on a middle-class family. In fact it is fuelled by such bitter passion that it still has the powe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AM on August 1, 2015