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The Cutting of the Cloth review " well-tailored Savile Row drama by Michael Billington

Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis revival of Michael Hastings's 1973 play immaculately captures the rhythms and tensions inside a tailor's workshop in the 1950sWork is not only a four-letter word: it is also, as many playwrights have proved, inherently dramatic. But while this intriguing play by Michael Hastings, written in 1973 and only now being rediscovered, belongs in an honourable tradition, it never quite achieve…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM on March 18, 2015

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