Sheffield CrucibleThe depression of the 1930s gave us gritty, campaigning dramas such as Love On the Dole, but it also offered the escapist pleasures of the musical. The current recession has given us toff TV in Downton Abbey and now it gives us toff theatre with Anna Mackmin's frothily enjoyable revival of Noel Gay's 1937 gender-reverse Pygmalion in which Lambeth boy Bill Snibson discovers that he is heir to an earl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29PM on December 21, 2010