Southwark Playhouse, LondonAn updating of Gorky's play loses the moral ambiguity surrounding its female protagonist and makes little sense uprooted from its historial contextMaxim Gorky's play exists in two versions " one written in 1910, the other in 1935 "both of which feature a domineering female entrepreneur. Emily Juniper has come up with a new version for The Faction theatre company which transposes the action …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM on June 19, 2016