... Mrs Steinberg and the Byker Boy Bush In Michael Wilcox's new comedy, Mrs Steinberg is an old-style socialist who runs a charity shop benefitting left-wing causes, like pencils for Cuba. When she leaves for a month, her staff, led by the ambitious young ...

... can espouse the writer's detached, but always thought- provoking views about romantic jealousy. Michael Hadley plays the socialist preacher Reverend James Morell. True to the part, Hadley begins as a superior, glib, moralist windbag. But by the close his ...