From The Daughter-in-Law, at City Center.
Photo: Maria Baranova
D.H. Lawrence wasn’t known for his plays: It’s hard to keep up a reputation for theater when you’re rarely produced and your other writing is busy ripping the starched shirt off British censorship. Over the past two decades, though, the Mint Theater has looked closely and carefully at Lawrence’s portraits of domestic life near the Lincolnshire mines. They’re not as heated as novels like Sons and Lovers or Lady Chatterley’s Lover; instead, his dialect-filled plays contain a certain magnetic, sooty darkness. In 2003, the Mint produced Lawrence’s 1913 drama The Daughter-in-Law; in 2009, it was the bleaker The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Now they…
