Review: Mrs Orwell, Old Red Lion
The lights dim, and after what is possibly one of the longer blackouts in theatre currently, we see the frail figure of George Orwell (Peter Hamilton Dyer) deep in the clutches of Tuberculosis at University College Hospital, and Mrs Orwell starts. The year is 1949. Sonia Brownwell (played by Cressida Bonas) is a thirty-year old magazine editor. Still recovering from a recent heart…