Harold Brighouse's time-honoured English comedy from a century ago survives, its virtues mostly intact especially once attention shifts away from the snarling patriarch of the title, Henry Horatio Hobson (a padded Martin Shaw), to the generation of women beneath him " his peppery, politically and socially progressive eldest daughter, Maggie (Naomi Frederick), chief among them.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:49AM on June 19, 2016