Laughter in the dark – a funny, poignant family drama

Till The Stars Come Down, Dorfman, National Theatre, London.

Sinead Matthews as Sylvia
photo: Manuel Harlan

Until recently, the web search “Mansfield literature” brought up Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814) and the author Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923). The book, though, is based mainly in Northamptonshire while the writer was a New Zealander.

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