A Marvellous Year for Plums " review
Chichester festival theatreHugh Whitemore has written a play about something that sounds eerily familiar: a legally dubious British invasion of a Middle Eastern country run by a militaristic dictator. Whitemore's subject is not Iraq, however, but the Suez crisis of 1956. As someone old enough to have lived through those events, I found this intelligent, well-ordered play stirred some bitter memories.Whitemore's main …