Beau Brummell – An Elegant Madness at Jermyn Street Theatre
https://www.londontheatre1.com/news/166882/beau-brummell-an-elegant-madness-jermyn-street-theatre/ Beau Brummell – An Elegant Madness, Jermyn Street Theatre – Richard Latham and Sean Brosnan, courtesy of Savannah Photographic A little thing can have an amazing effect on the world. Remember Benjamin Franklin’s poem that starts “ For the want of a nail the shoe was lost ” and ends up with an entire kingdom being given away all because a nail was missing. A historical example of little things changing the life of someone occurred in 1813 when five words uttered in a fit of pique by Britain’s greatest dandy ruined his life and started a downward spiral that ended in madness. The words were “ Alvanley, who’s your fat friend? “. The consequences of this utterance can be seen in Ron Hutchinson’s play Beau Brummell – An Elegant Madness which has opened at the Jermyn Street Theatre. It is 1819 and in a run down room in a French convent, Mr Beau Brummell (Seán Brosnan) is sittin...