Top director's turn as playwright leaves questions unanswered

Although Sir Richard Eyre has been directing for six decades, The Snail House is the first play he has written wholly himself.

Patrick Walshe McBride as Hugo and Grace Hogg-Robinson as Sarah in The Snail House.
MANUEL HARLAN

A new play, written by the distinguished director Sir Richard Eyre, might have benefited from the direction of somebody else to interrogate the text.

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