Real drama trumped melodrama when young actor Stanley Morgan collapsed 10 minutes into the opening night of Lilian Hellman’s study of a rapaciously dysfunctional family in the American south of 1900.
It’s a credit to the rigour and focus of Lyndsey Turner’s production, led by the radiant Anne-Marie Duff, that when it restarted an hour late with Morgan on his feet again, it ran as smoothly as a machine. He got an ovation at the end and looked abashed.
