'It's odd to see myself portrayed on stage. Smile more! Don't be so grim!'
Polly Toynbee squirmed when she saw an actor play her in a theatre adaptation that has intertwined George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London with Hard Work, her own book about living in poverty I was astounded and flattered when British director David Byrne told me he was writing and directing a play, Down and Out in Paris and London, that intertwines George Orwell's famous 1933 book with my considerably less …