Rachael Stirling’s imperious, high-comic performance as Sarah Siddons is the saving grace of this aimless and tiresomely in-jokey play.
Writer April De Angelis celebrates the 18th century actress as a pioneer in command of her own image and craft, kicking against the patriarchal dominance of her feckless offstage husband and her idiot brother Philip Kemble (Dominic Rowan), her manager and co-star at Drury Lane.
