Finborough, LondonDion Boucicault's convoluted melodrama is elevated by the earnestness and imagination of Phil Willmott's canny revival "Spare me the theatricals," pleads a character in Dion Boucicault's 1868 Victorian melodrama. Since the play includes forged cheques, lost fathers, music-hall medleys and suicide bids before advancing trains, it is advice that Boucicault himself hardly heeded. But although, as drama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AM on June 23, 2019