‘In a world dominated by men, there was I, shouting out. And here I am in my 80th year, proud to see this changing’
Dame Arlene Phillips sounds surprisingly chipper when we catch up with her the morning after the night before.
Having scooped the 2023 Special Award at the Olivier Awards, the choreographer had been celebrating into the early hours at the afterparty, and hasn’t, she says, “had as much sleep as I’d like”.
The Oliviers, which are considered the Oscars of British theatre, were “very surreal”, she adds. “I felt
