The real test of any play written as a star vehicle is how it works when performed by lesser mortals. Two productions that have just opened–Theatre Britain’s Lettice & Lovage and Theatre Three’s The ...

Lettice, employed as a stately home tourist guide, has inherited theatricality and eccentricity from her mother. Caught using 'alternative facts' to embroider the history of the house by Lotte, her ...

“I cannot accept ‘merely.’ I do not do anything ‘merely,’” says Lettice Douffet, a tour guide to a stately English home with an epic history of dullness in Peter Shaffer’s 1987 play “Lettice and ...