ANTOMIME, wrote the drama critic and essayist Max Beerbohm in 1908, is ‘the one art form that has been invented in England, an art form especially adapted to English genius.’ That claim might raise eyebrows in Glasgow, Cardiff or Belfast, but one knows what Beerbohm meant. but a variation on, with the Ugly Sisters a fancy-dressed Goneril and Regan and the hapless heroine a modern Cordelia?
