Splurge guns at the ready: child actors steal the spotlight
Watch out Matilda, Billy and Charlie ... 2015 brings some striking roles for kids. But as The Nether's director Jeremy Herrin explains, working with young stars can be a high-wire actLondon theatre might have a death wish " or at least a penchant for daredevilry. After a spate of performing animals " wild ducks and Russian dogs among them " comes a veritable brattery of child actors. WC Fields, he of the famous showb…