Anna X, Harold Pinter Theatre, London
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Much more exciting than any of that, though, is the fact that Corrin is making her West End debut. And it comes as no surprise that the Golden Globe award-winner is actually pretty good
Until recently, Emma Corrin was best known for playing Lady Di in The Crown on Netflix.
But in the past few weeks she may have become more famous for a black and white photo of her ‘breast binding’ on social media app Instagram.
And this after an announcement in June that her preferred pronouns are now ‘she/they’.
Much more exciting than any of that, though, is the fact that Corrin is making her West End debut. And it comes as no surprise that the Golden Globe award-winner is actually pretty good.
She plays a character based on the notorious Russian-born swindler Anna Sorokin – a former London art student who posed as a German heiress to scam banks, hotels and millionaires in New York out of huge sums of money.
Jailed for grand larceny in 2019, Sorokin’s exploits have already been filmed for Netflix (the result, Inventing Anna, is expected early next year), while HBO have a series of their own in the works too.
Since the US government is trying to ensure she doesn’t make a cent from her crimes, the ‘fake heiress’, as she’s come to be known, must be wondering if she’d have been better off writing her story than living it.
What’s changed in Joseph Charlton’s play is that Anna is presented as a blithely amoral party animal who latches onto fictional tech millionaire Ariel (Nabhaan Rizwan, star of BBC1’s Informer), who’s made his money with an exclusive dating app.
She targets him at a nightclub and he obligingly falls under her spell as she strings him along with her loveable eccentricity, reckless behaviour and tales of using Class A drugs as suppositories (the ‘X’ of the title, may be a
