Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

The big sleep

<strong>Small Change</strong><em><br /> Donmar</em> <strong>War and Peace, I and II</strong><em><br /> Hampstead</em>

issue 26 April 2008

Small Change
Donmar

War and Peace, I and II
Hampstead

Oh my God. Did that really happen? I knew nothing about Peter Gill’s 1976 play, Small Change, before arriving at the Donmar to see this revival under the author’s own direction. It’s a love letter, an immensely detailed and spectacularly superficial account of the working-class experience as related by four dimwits living and whingeing in south Wales.

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