The pandemic has brought out the budding playwright in Richard Eyre, former artistic director of the National Theatre. He conceived The Snail House during lockdown and it becomes, courageously, his first original play in a vast, rich oeuvre of directed and adapted works for stage and screen.
This debut, which he also directs, is a family drama cum state-of-the-nation play cum tale of medical misdiagnosis. As interesting as these parts are, they do not make a unified whole.
