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Lindsay Duncan and co create a living period piece in Dodie Smith’s rarely performed marvel of a family portrait; Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde is so wrong it’s almost right; and the music carries a tame Live Aid nostalgiafest
Dodie Smith’s play presents a beautifully drawn, four-generation celebration of a golden wedding anniversary on the eve of the second world war
Why is the National Theatre staging this frightfully old fashioned play from the 1930s? A superb performance from Lindsay Duncan and a production tinged with foreboding are reason enough
Dodie Smith’s play makes a return
I can’t help thinking that this borderline utopian agreeableness, while very pleasant, doesn’t make for great and gripping theatre.