Goodnight Mister Tom, Phoenix, London
Phoenix, London: Originally staged at Chichester Festival Theatre last year and then toured, this show has matured and developed. A 1940s wartime reworking of the Silas Marner story in which a battered, abused evacuee and a curmudgeonly old man, who has been shut away by grief for 40 years, are thrown together. Love, based on kindness, gradually develops between Tom Oakley (Oliver Ford Davies) and Willie Beech (Ewan …