This underpowered attempt to drag the infamous Lady Emma Hamilton out of her lover Nelson’s shadow relies on the real-life, mother-daughter double-act of Caroline and Rose Quentin to pique interest.
The two are neatly deployed by writer April De Angelis and director Michael Oakley to express the decay of fortunes, reputations and flesh. But the show’s easy wit and elegantly simple structure can’t disguise the fact it has very little to say.
