Orange Tree, Richmond Maugham's 1933 play " about a man whose charitable giving horrifies his family " beautifully skewers the self-interestedness of society then and nowSomerset Maugham is often seen as a cynical ironist but in his last play, written in 1933, the asperity is offset by a radical idealism. His hero, Sheppey, is a benign barber who wins £8,500 on the Irish sweepstake and decides to live according to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM on November 29, 2016