Marlene - review
Stephen Joseph, ScarboroughThe late Pam Gems wrote to fulfil a specific need: "When I came to the theatre in the 1970s I saw straight away that there were no parts for women, so I had a cause: I wrote parts for women."It was almost inevitable that Gems would get round to Marlene Dietrich eventually. She created a theatrical version of Dietrich's most famous film, The Blue Angel, for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1…