The Syndicate " review | Michael Billington
Minerva, ChichesterAs anyone who had the luck to see Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Napoli Milionaria will know, Eduardo de Filippo was one of the great figures of European theatre. But his penultimate play, written in 1960 and here getting its British premiere in a new translation by Mike Poulton, strikes me as one of his lesser pieces. Full of pious good intentions but awkward stagecraft, it is chiefly memorable for a…