"Bette and Joan" by Anton Burge

BETTE AND JOAN is a two-hander, set in the early 1960s in Los Angeles where Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, then the grandest grandes dames in Hollywood, are making What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The film tells the story of Blanche and Jane Hudson, sisters bound together by guilt and deceit, and it is now regarded as a camp classic. It would go on to be nominated for five Oscars, including one for Davis, although when it came to the ceremony it was Crawford who got her hands on a golden statuette, stepping up to collect the Best Actress Award on behalf of Anne Bancroft. Anton Burge's comedy takes the audience behind the set and finds the two stars in their adjacent dressing-rooms, resting, rehearsing and - after thirty years of feuding - ready to bury the hatchet ... in each other