Husbands & Sons, National Theatre
If the thought of three hours of DH Lawrence fills you with dread, fear not. Ben Powers' three-for-the-price-of-one melding of Lawrence's trio of mining plays is a spellbindingly intimate epic with atmosphere thick as the coal dust engulfing this cloistered 1911 East Midlands community. The village is powered and oppressed by the industrial machine swallowing up the menfolk, but our focus is on the women's claustroph…