Simon Godwin, interview: Director of The Beaux Stratagem explains why the play isn't just a restoration romp - it's feminism
Simon Godwin's first words to me are: "Can we start this on the balcony? I'm allowed to smoke out there." You can certainly forgive the director a few urgent drags of nicotine: there is, as he says, "a lot going on". Man And Superman, his long sold out revival of George Bernard Shaw's epic riff on Don Juan starring Ralph Fiennes, has just closed at the National's Lyttelton theatre when we meet. At the same time, he i…