In Sally’s Eyes: On Imelda Staunton’s “Losing My Mind”

On broken hearts and lost time in Sondheim’s “Follies”

In Sally’s eyes, as played by Imelda Staunton in the 2017 National Theatre revival of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s musical Follies directed by Dominick Cooke, you can see madness, pain, a dream slipping through her fingers, curdling into nightmare. It’s Sally’s folly in the…