★★★★★I used to think that David Mamet’s campus drama was an exciting but rigged fight between a smug but fairly decent middle-aged male arts professor and the failing female student who has a point in her complaints against him, but lets her principles overrule her humanity. Is it Lucy Bailey’s thrillingly even-handed revival that has changed things, here for a West End run after opening in Bath last year? Or was the play’s bias always in my head rather than Mamet’s? This campus two-hander certainly prompted furious rows among its audiences when it was first staged in New York in 1992 and in London a year later. And what was once a reaction to political correctness — and to

Source: The Times July 29, 2021 11:03 UTC