Harley Granville Barker's 116-year-old Agnes Colander is finally brought to life
A previously unperformed 1900 play about a proto-feminist painter has received a rehearsed reading at the National Theatre. Is a full revival now in order?It is both the dream and the nightmare of admirers of a particular writer that an unknown work may turn up after his or her death. In the best cases, the lost manuscript will prove to have been suppressed for some reason personal (grief, privacy) or public (censors…