The week in theatre: Knocking on the Wall; To Have and to Hold; Mates in Chelsea – review

The week in theatre: Knocking on the Wall; To Have and to Hold; Mates in Chelsea – review

Finborough; Hampstead; Royal Court, LondonAn exemplary staging of short plays by overlooked Ena Lamont Stewart; Alun Armstrong is at his hangdog best in Richard Bean’s warm retirement drama; and toffs get both barrels in a heavy-handed satireA decade before John Osborne and the angry young men of the Royal Court, a woman was spurred to write for the stage by “a mood of red-hot revolt” at what she saw there: “cocktail time, glamorous gowns and un…