Ashes review " an honest look at a couple's failure to conceive
Octagon, BoltonDavid Thacker revives David Rudkin's rarely performed 1970s play about an infertile Ulsterman and his English wifeDavid Rudkin is a major figure in postwar British theatre whose work is not revived frequently enough. Kenneth Tynan acclaimed his classic Afore Night Come as "the finest debut since Look Back in Anger"; though it was Rudkin's second play, Ashes, that proved seminal in every sense of the wo…