Theatre Royal, BathThis sly portrait of a cobbler and his class-conscious daughters is shown to be way ahead of its time in Jonathan Church's handsome stagingThere are shades of King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew in Harold Brighouse's 1916 comedy which is as well made and comfortable as a stout pair of boots. Prosperous Salford bootmaker Henry Hobson (Martin Shaw) is a widower with three daughters. It's 1880, chan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AM on March 7, 2016