Posh hotels are good settings for drama. They look cool, feel alien and can soon acquire a sense of claustrophobic intensity. Most importantly, in real life they feel like stage sets. Playwrights from Noël Coward (Private Lives) to Sarah Kane (Blasted) have set their work in luxury hotels, so Polly Stenham's latest play, her first for the National Theatre (and performed in the small studio space), follows in some …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:01PM on June 5, 2014