One particularly illuminating paragraph, which may in future be quoted as a “what is a sofa bed” moment, was from Lord Rodger, who (albeit accepting these were “trivial stereotypical examples”), summed up the life of a male heterosexual in British society (thank you to Joshua Rozenberg for pointing this out): just as male heterosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates, so male homosexuals are… [read post]

  Joshua Rozenberg discusses this on his well-informed Standpoint blog. [read post]

  Were a creative team writing this today, I think the first act dialogue would have been a lot more bracing, rather than the somewhat simplistic, and occasionally awkward, dialogue from the original book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. [read post]