Summary
Performance: theatre The last Edwardian Never So Good Lyttelton Theatre, London SE1 An overly cautious portrait of Harold Macmillan fails to win our sympathy This should have been a diabolical marriage made in heaven, the firebrand left-wing playwright on the last of the Tory grandee prime ministers, the showman politician bestriding the National's proscenium stage. Brenton is more convincing portraying the Tory leader as psychologically damaged goods, knocked about by Nellie, his overambitious American mother (a two-dimensional Anna Carteret), and then by his wife, Dorothy, who wants to be the PM's escort yet cuckolds him for decades with Bob Boothby (good work by Robert Glenister as that nasty piece of work).
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The Last Edwardian
Performance: theatre
The last EdwardianNever So GoodLyttelton Theatre, London SE1An overly cautious portrait of Harold Macmillan fails to win our sympathyThis should have been a diabolical marriage made in heaven, the fir...See the full content of this document
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