Royal Exchange, ManchesterWell, blow me down with a feather " Harold Brighouse's 100-year-old northern parlour comedy is a right little charmer. It borrows from all those fairytales in which the younger, unappreciated son wins out over his thrusting elder brother to gain the hand of the princess. Sentimental? Certainly. Improbable? Without doubt. Old fashioned? Indisputably. But there is something here about the impo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PM on January 6, 2011