In her thirties, Lorraine was unfaithful once or twice; she didn’t tell her husband. Quentin owed her, she reckoned, in that long accounting of pluses and minuses which is marriage. Owed her not only ...

A play called The Maths Tutor sounds about as enticing as a piece entitled The Traffic Warden or The Emergency Dentist. But don't be put off by the name, for the deeply painful yet obstinately funny ...