Forget about East and West—you could hardly expect them to meet when even Uptown and Downtown can't get their methodologies to merge. This second stage adaptation of E.M. Forster's seminal novel (there's an equally ungainly earlier one, by the Anglo-Indian novelist Santha Rama Rau) was a co-production by the Nottingham Playhouse and the experimental London troupe Shared Experience. Slow-moving and schematic, with mostly tinny acting and heavily signaled messages from adapter Martin Sherman's script, Nancy Meckler's production often looked as though it hadn't been able to decide between two ways of doing a thing, and so was... More >>>