★★★★★If you’ve ever wanted to know how Donald Trump got elected, look no farther. And if that makes Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer prizewinning play about the deindustrialisation of a Pennsylvania steel town in 2000 sound more like homework than great drama, be assured that this desperately sad and invigoratingly even-handed play will chime with anyone who has felt their certainties turn to dust. Now on Shaftesbury Avenue after first appearing at the intimate Donmar Warehouse at Christmas, Lynette Linton’s exquisitely acted production still pulls off the double of being as light on its feet as it is intense. The action mostly takes place in the local bar, where the steelworkers come to unwind, celebrate, brag, mourn, joke, spat with their drug-addict husbands, fall out, fall apart…

Source: The Times June 13, 2019 11:03 UTC