Aldwych theatre, London... The drama of love and loss in Shadowlands has played out movingly in film and on television ... In all its iterations, it is an old-fashioned weepie ... ....
If you find that idea at all disconcerting or mawkish, then don't dream of setting foot in the heavily moralistic, intensely sentimental world of film-turned-play Shadowlands... She's a dangerous addition to Lewis's staid social set ... .