by Theodore Dalrymple (April 2015)
The past is another country where they do things differently: but how long past does the past have to be for the country to be utterly foreign? Sometimes it seems that the time that it takes is shorter and shorter, that a few years is more than sufficient. Who would have thought twenty years ago that the United States Supreme Court would be deliberating twenty years later as to whether it was actually legally permissible for any state of the union not to permit homosexual marriage? And this is so whether you now think that the whole idea is a good one or not. more>>>
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Stanley Houghton is not as obscure a figure as the good Doctor suggests – see the Wikipaedia entry on “Hindle Wakes”:
“The 100th anniversary of Stanley Houghton’s Hindle Wakes was marked in 2012. In September 2012, the first London revival in over 30 years took place at Finborough Theatre (Earls Court) from the 11th to the 29th.
It has been filmed four times, twice in the silent era (1918, 1927), and twice in the sound era (1931, 1952) although the film versions have tended to open out the play considerably. There was also a grittier TV movie version of it (1976), starring Donald Pleasence and co-directed by Laurence Olivier.
The 1931 film starred Belle Chrystal as the mill girl and John Stuart as the employer’s son, with Sybil Thorndike, Edmund Gwenn and Norman McKinnel. Parts of it were filmed in Blackpool.”
Apparently there are unpublished plays by Houghton still held in the archives of the University of Salford. Maybe it is time for a modern playwright or producer to have a fresh look at them?