‘It feels completely normal’: Imelda Staunton reflects on acting with her daughter

‘It feels completely normal’: Imelda Staunton reflects on acting with her daughter

Imelda Staunton says acting on stage alongside her daughter Bessie Carter feels “completely normal.” The pair are working together for the first time in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession at the Garrick Theatre, playing a mother and daughter. “It’s weird that it just feels normal,” Staunton told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in an interview aired on Sunday (25 May). “It’s a wonderful play, a difficult play, and so we've had sleepless nig…

Imelda Staunton stars in West End revival of Mrs Warren’s Profession – review

There once was a time when George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs Warren’s Profession was banned from being performed, and honestly we can see why. We doubt that Victorian England was ready for a play on the theme of sex work – the profession to which the title alludes is that Mrs Warren owns and runs a successful chain of brothels – and we also doubt that many at the time would have approved of a show so critical of capitalism or society’s conventions.…