Theatre reviews: The good Hope

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: February 3, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The good Hope National Theatre, London ****

IT IS easy to forget, as we emerge from the Nervous Nineties, that theatre is the original political art form. The National provides a reminder of that fact with Lee Hall's inventive interpretation of Dutch dramatist Herman Heijermans' unapologetically polemical play The Good Hope.

Written a century ago, the piece set out to address the appalling loss of life on The Netherlands' barely regulated fishing fleet. Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular ...

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