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Ronald Harwood's 'An English Tragedy' - at the Watford Playhouse till March - must be one of the most affecting new plays for years. It tells the wartime story of John Amery, son of the Cabinet Minister Leo Amery, who, among other actions during the Second World War, broadcast from Germany, like Lord Haw Haw, for which he was tried in November 1945. He was convicted at the Old Bailey of High Treason and received a capital sentence. The play is almost unbearably moving and at the end there was that greatest of theatrical tributes, a stunned silence, only broken reluctantly by applause that swelled and swelled for an outstanding company and a play to match. For anyone who appreciates theatre at its serious best, I cannot recommend this play and production highly enough.
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