... modern comedy. Pinero's dialogue is here at its most rounded and ornate. The play calls for a special style of acting and speaking for a fullness, an authority to which the contemporary stage is unused. Personally, I do not find Tanqueray tiresome I find ...

... brings doom to Rosmersholm but she does not communicate it to us the secrets remain unshared, largely, I think though she speaks well because her range of English intonations is still limited. We have to look to the Rosmer, who is Robert Harris, grave ...

... periodically clutches her heart and fumbles in her bag for tiny pills, we are left in very little doubt that she has, crudely speaking, had her chips. The nature of her illness is never clearly divulged she herself blames it vaguely on the war and after but ...

... waned, we can find ourselves as disappointed as though the gold we had been grasping had thinned to sifting dust. So it is (I speak for myself) with Accolade. While the play was in performance on the first night, I felt that it must all be urgent and exciting: ...