McQueen, St James Theatre, review: Bio-drama of fashion designer's life verges on glamorisation
In writing a play about fashion designer Alexander McQueen, James Phillips has sensibly eschewed a straight bio-drama in favour of a one-night fairytale, a whirl across London from his posh house in West London to a high-rise rooftop in East London where he grew up. The device propelling him is Dahlia, a sassy young American who walks in from his garden and demands a dress. She is 'the girl who came down from a tree'…