REVIEW: Bette and Joan at the Theatre Royal, Brighton

THEIR feud was legendary, as were their demanding ways.

Bette David and Joan Crawford had been at the top of the Hollywood tree, but after hitting the wrong side of 40, their careers and their popularity began to wane.

And it’s a decade after this, when they’re in their 50s and acting parts are increasingly hard to come by, that we meet Bette and Joan in the production of the same name currently showing at the Theatre Royal,