A star rating of 3 out of 5. Although not overly well-received at the time, Terence Rattigan’s Man and Boy is packed full of themes that eerily resonate today. The play follows the Antonescu family, a powerful and crooked financier father and his estranged son living in Greenwich Village in 1934. Gregor Antonescu reappears unexpectedly in his son Basil’s life five years after their estrangement, with a “small” favour to ask. What Basil doesn’t realise is that his father is planning to offer him up as a sexual reward as part of a crooked business deal. The play explores the power dynamics in the central father-son relationship, as well as pondering the larger concepts of conscience and morality. Perhaps even more relevant today is the theme of casual and brazen exploitation with no fear of consequences, making Man and Boy a timely choice for Indhu Rubasingham’s first piece of programming for the National Theatre. Rattigan is a master of subtext, which truly shines in this claustrophobic work. However, at times Man and Boy feels slightly …