A hundred years ago, British playwright Harley Granville Barker revolutionized the stage with his embrace of the political and his embrace of realism. In recent years, London theaters have been leading a revival of Barker’s plays. But are the revivals missing a crucial point? “Today, Granville Barker’s ideas have been assimilated into the mainstream – and now we must go beyond him in our new work. The kind of theatre he advocated – essentially the tentative beginnings of social realism – has been embraced for over 40 years. We need to move on again, and realise that if theatre is evolving beyond this, it is for a very good reason.”