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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 19991014
Author:NICK CURTIS

WIDOWERS' HOUSES m Royal National Theatre Tour/ Horsham GEORGE Bernard Shaw's first play is a chilly, unsubtle expos of middle- class complicity in the oppression of the poor. This NT touring production, staged by actress Fiona Shaw - no relation as far as I know - does it few favours.

Some of Fiona's odd directorial decisions - such as the fretful, hypertense acting - seem designed to ram home the moral message that George Bernard actually explains quite methodically. Others look like desperate measures from a director who doesn't trust the material.

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