Mr Foote's Other Leg review " gusto and sorrow at the dawn of celebrity
Hampstead, London Simon Russell Beale is a delight as the one-legged 18th-century dramatist who turned fame into an art form in Richard Eyre's rumbustious productionYou don't often see a playwright appearing in his own work these days. But Ian Kelly, who has adapted his own book for the stage, is an impressively goofy Prince George (later III). Mr Foote's Other Leg uses splendid Samuel Foote to irradiate the 18th cen…