DVD: The Skin Trade

Oh dear. This slow and wordy filmed play isn't a very exciting C21st experience. And the central cause of all their problems now seems so very trivial (like the scandal at the heart of Oscar Wilde's 'Lady Windemere's Fan' over 30 years before). However, there is still surprising interest in the portrayal of the class structures that cage individuals, and the ambivalent (and unexpectedly sympathetic) portrait of the social-crossing nouveau riche patriarch.