Will we ever get over the Mitfords? Unlikely. This summer’s glossy TV treatment of their story, Outrageous, is the latest proof of the aristo-family’s inexhaustible appeal. Amy Rosenthal’s new play may be lucky, or not, to pitch up so soon after.
The sisters are so well established by the vast repository of existing content they barely need introduction: the waspish novelist (Nancy), the society beauty (Diana), the Hitler obsessive (Unity), the socialist revolutionary (Decca), and the country-living one who just wants to marry a duke (Debo). Pamela, who spent her life happily married and tending a farm, remains staunchly off stage.
