The Cocktail Party review " TS Eliot's personal demons laid bare
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonEliot's baroque drawing-room drama presents a couple's faltering relationship as a spiritual trial, echoing his own troubled marriageOnce a popular West End hit, TS Eliot's 1949 play now looks a bit of a baroque relic in its attempt to explore spiritual issues in the framework of a drawing-room comedy. But, for all the high-toned references to Euripides's Alcestis and the Orpheus and …