The National's magnificent production of Caryl Churchill's English civil war play resonates powerfully todayCaryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire was written in 1976, is set around 1646 and illuminates 2015. There is no mystery about the National's pre-election scheduling: this is a play about protest, about Levellers, Ranters and a moment when England almost " but not quite " reinvented itself. It highl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PM on April 24, 2018