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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20030911
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The Mob John Galsworthy is unfashionable. But in Sam Walters's atmospheric revival of this 1914 play, with Elgar's First Symphony sounding intermittent notes of musical irony, The Mob proves a radical society drama - and eerily topical.

Stephen More, Galsworthy's MP hero, sacrifices his ministerial post, constituency and the admiration of his family by attacking Britain's decision to wage a popular war against some small faraway country. Analogies with Iraq or Afghanistan are, of course, not direct, but the old conflict between individual conscience and governmental or ...

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