Sex, solitude and soul: Rattigan's Variation on a Theme returns
Rattigan's spin on La Dame aux Camélias was slated when it was first staged in 1958 and then vanished from view. Actor Rachael Stirling and director Michael Oakley explain why they've brought it backThree years ago, Rachael Stirling was in the dumps. "I was miserable," the actor recalls. "I had broken up with someone I was going to marry, and was clearing tables in a pub in the Edgware Road." Swatting away sub-par s…