Material Girl

Take some lessons in love from a movie star...

Dolly Russell was a Hollywood star at a time when women were beautiful and men were strong.

Scarlet White is a make-up artist at a time when women are desperate to be beautiful and men are... pretty rubbish.

Dolly is the latest Hollywood star to grace the West End stage. A notorious old diva, she's used to getting her own way. Scarlet is a woman on the edge - going nowhere fast with her commitment-phobic boyfriend, getting herself into compromising situations, dodging the attentions of the leading man and wondering where the promise of yesterday went.

When Dolly drugs the existing make-up artist a week before opening night, Scarlet finds herself thrown to the old wolf and tempers flare.

But in a world where sex and love are mistaken daily, possessions have become more important than emotions, and a woman's looks seem to mean almost everything, Scarlet starts to see things through Dolly's eyes. Has a fading old beauty got more to teach a modern girl than not mixing your Valium and your gin?