Barbican, LondonI fear that the great tradition of English artificial comedy, written mainly by Irishmen and running from the Restoration to Oscar Wilde, is in danger. Either we neglect it or we revive it badly " and the latest victim is Sheridan's 1777 comic masterpiece, given an uncharacteristically duff production by Deborah Warner that strains to point out the parallels between then and now.Warner prefaces the ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AM on May 22, 2011