Minerva, ChichesterGitha Sowerby's superb 1924 play, with Ophelia Lovibond in the title role, reminds us that being a woman of means isn't always enoughIn a house in Surrey in 1911, the small talk is about newfangled electric lighting, and yet for a modern audience Githa Sowerby's superb and seldom performed The Stepmother (1924) takes place in what we might like to think of as a dark age, in which English women were…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM on August 27, 2017