The best performance I've ever seen: Imogen Stubbs
Haymarket, London, 1988-89In 1989 I saw Vanessa Redgrave in Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending, directed by Peter Hall. I vaguely knew Vanessa as mother to Natasha and Joely. But I had never seen her act live. The boy " Jean-Marc Barr " was the reason I went; he had been in the film The Big Blue. I was smitten. Now I can't remember him at all.Vanessa's character, Lady, had to have an Italian accent. Accents are …