Joan Collins is carrying on in her swashbuckling role in Over the Moon (fka Moon Over Buffalo) at the Old Vic, despite spraining her thumb while waving a sword about.
Her appearance in a customised fencing outfit sparked more newspaper coverage last week than many small wars, and it was while performing in her eye-catching ensemble - which one wit claimed gives a whole new meaning to “basque separatism” - that Miss Collins damaged her hand.
The injury is particularly symbolic as Miss Collins has come in for some fairly unkind comments by theatre critics - comments based on her age and public persona as much as her performance in Over the Moon.
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—by Paul Webb Theatrenow
