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LYNNE WALSH sees form suffocate all-important content in a groundbreaking 1928 play
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The Old Vic, London
WRITER Sophie Treadwell created plays with a female audience in mind, and did a grand job with this piece, first staged in 1928.
The crying shame is that the production, nearly a century later, does not serve its central theme well enough.
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