The Stepmother review " money and power in a man's world
Minerva, ChichesterGitha Sowerby's superb 1924 play, with Ophelia Lovibond in the title role, reminds us that being a woman of means isn't always enoughIn a house in Surrey in 1911, the small talk is about newfangled electric lighting, and yet for a modern audience Githa Sowerby's superb and seldom performed The Stepmother (1924) takes place in what we might like to think of as a dark age, in which English women were…