Night Waves - 11/06/2008

Matthew Sweet has a first-night review of The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold, best known for having written the novel National Velvet. First performed in 1956, with John Gielgud directing Peggy Ashcroft and Edith Evans, the new production is directed at the Donmar by Michael Grandage, and stars Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack.