Billie Piper wins Evening Standard award for 'breathtaking' performance
Actor and former pop star hailed for stage portrayal of woman struggling to conceive in Yerma at the Young VicA stage performance variously described by critics as "devastating", "earth-quaking" and "breathtakingly uninhibited" won Billie Piper one of the UK's leading theatre awards on Sunday.Piper was named best actress at the Evening Standard theatre awards, going since 1955 and now Britain's longest-running, for h…