The Breadwinner " review
Orange Tree, LondonFantasies of flight fuelled the life and work of Somerset Maugham. They are also the governing theme of this compellingly cruel 1930 comedy, which forms a fascinating companion piece to previous plays by Githa Sowerby and GB Stern in the Orange Tree season. Those works dealt with the plight of women in the interwar years; Maugham's play shows that men, too, faced an existential crisis.At first, all…