Chichester festival theatre
A first-rate Joseph Fiennes saves the day in Terence Rattigan’s timid drama based on TE LawrenceThese days a theatre critic measures out her life in the Fiennes brothers. And in Rattigan plays. Last week The Deep Blue Sea; this week Ross. From laceration in Ladbroke Grove to whipping in the desert.
The leap is large. It is not an advance. Terence Rattigan’s “domestic” drama concentrates a range of pressures in a small space. It reverberates. Ross has a large political canvas, a wide geographical reach and a noted hero. But it is a more timid play.
The political background is vital: the British reneging on promises to the Arabs... it is only glanced at hereContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com