Theatre
THAT FACE Duke of York's LONDON **** BORIS GODUNOV Warwick Arts
Centre WARWICK ****
Polly Stenham must be (in roughly equal parts) the envy, despair
and inspiration of fledgling dramatists. She wrote That Face when
she was 19. She scooped three awards after the premiere at the Royal
Court. And, with this transfer to the Duke of York's, she's the
youngest dramatist to hit the West End in nearly 50 years. It can't
make it any easier for young fellow-playwrights that this runaway
success is richly deserved. That Face is a razor-sharp dissection of
a dysfunctional upper-middle-class family that achieves a rare
balance of raw emotion and knowing, black comedy.
Jeremy Herrin's ...