The Breadwinner " review by Michael Billington

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…

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