Orpheus Descending, Royal Exchange, Manchester

Imogen Stubbs looked bashful at the curtain call, as if embarrassed by all the fuss. This may have been because one of her defining moments in a theatre audience was watching Vanessa Redgrave playing the same role of Lady, the lonely, broken, middle-aged immigrant Italian woman for whom life's possibilities in America's South are suddenly reawakened. Stubbs tells how the image of Redgrave at the end " sitting like a …

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