Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Let Hester fester

In the Blood <br /> Finborough, until 4 September Zelda<br /> Leicester Square

issue 04 September 2010

In the Blood
Finborough, until 4 September

Zelda
Leicester Square

Those who oppose state-funded theatre in Britain sometimes imagine that America, with its far smaller subsidised sector, is spared the sort of pious, jokeless, grind-yer-nose-in-it plays which our handout theatres use to punish audiences for the sin of being affluent.

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