The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Brighton Festival review - epically intimate, hilarious drama in the shadow of Trump
A sprawling, Chekhovian saga, unknowingly written in yet sensing the year of the DonaldThe subtitle of Richard Nelson's new trilogy suggests an anti-Trump polemic. Instead, its miraculous, almost invisible craft fulfils the President's most hollow promise. It restores full humanity to a family of lower-middle class Americans who often feel slighted and helpless. As they gather around their kitchen table, the Gabriels…