Alan Ayckbourn, a playwright with a remarkable ability to take the national temperature, is reviving his landmark 1972 play to mark its 40th anniversary"It is difficult to find a bright moment in 1972," wrote the historian Christopher Lee in This Sceptred Isle. And he had a point. Few people think back fondly to a year that saw mass unemployment, a miners' strike that led to blackouts lasting nine hours a day, violen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PM on May 25, 2012