Chichester festival theatreWhile Bertolt Brecht triumphs at the Chichester Minerva with Arturo Ui, George Bernard Shaw is blandly revived in the city's main house. In its angry indictment of the reckless self-absorption of England's leisured classes, Heartbreak House, written in 1916, is now seen as a pioneering state-of-the-nation play rather than a Chekhovian pastiche. In this version, it comes across largely as a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AM on July 13, 2012