Orange Tree, RichmondIt almost defies belief that Githa Sowerby's 1924 drama is only now receiving its British professional premiere. While it may not quite possess the Ibsenite power of Rutherford and Son, which Northern Broadsides are reviving this week The Stepmother is riveting stuff. It shows Sowerby to have been a pioneering and perceptive observer of the way women's legal rights were subverted by social p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM on February 11, 2013