Robin/Red/Breast review - frights and folklore with a mesmerising Maxine Peake

Aviva Studios, ManchesterDaisy Johnson adapts a 1970 TV play into a poetic and disturbing exploration of childbirth's physical and emotional impact John Bowen's Robin Redbreast is one of those episodes of Play for Today that is rooted in its era. It is a quintessentially 1970s mix of stagey acting and on-the-nose social issues (cohabitation, contraception, abortion), spiced with a creepy infusion of English folklore. It is idiosyncratic and unnerving, and you can see why they call it a precursor...