Alice Birch's latest is a wildly epic family drama that is both mind-blowing and exasperating OMG! I mean OMG doubled!! This is amazing! Or is it? Can Alice Birch's Romans: A Novel at the Almeida Theatre really be the best play on the London stage, or is it not? Can it be both brilliant and exasperating? At one and the same time? Probably. Maybe. Okay, now you're in the zone.Â
