Our Country's Good, St James Theatre
Plays about plays are often touched by theatrical magic. This is certainly the case with Timberlake Wertenbaker's masterpiece, first staged in 1988, and now revived by the same director, Max Stafford-Clark, who originally eased it into the world. And, just as a quarter of a century ago the play felt like a protest against the moronic anti-arts prejudices of the Thatcher gang, so today it once again asserts the power …