Sheffield CrucibleThere's plenty to make Christopher Luscombe's revival of Harold Brighouse's 1915 comedy well worth a ticket. One reason is simply that this play is absolutely bomb-proof. For an audience who have never encountered it, they will discover an exquisitely crafted comedy in which tight-fisted Victorian patriarch and boot-seller Hobson, father to three grown-up daughters, is outwitted by the eldest, the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PM on June 3, 2011