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Review: The Last of the Haussmans

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By Michael Billington | June 20, 2012 | The Guardian

Plays about the legacy of the 1960s are becoming increasingly common. After Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love and Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Apologia, we now have this debut from Stephen Beresford. As an actor himself, he knows how to write whacking good parts and has all the benefits of a meticulous National production, but he rarely makes you feel the family he portrays can provide a metaphor for a generation.

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