Uncategorized October 20, 2014
NORTHERN LIGHTS
‘Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse’ by Joshua Reynolds (1784) Last week in Leeds, while staying at the Ibis hotel a short walk from the West Yorkshire Playhouse, I was astonished to learn that the manager of the sister hotel across town was a Mrs Sarah Siddons. The Mrs Siddons, the great eighteenth-century tragedienne, first …