Synopsis

Peggie Sheridan was, at various times, a weaver, a shoemaker, a horsewoman, an ice-carter, and a dress designer. But, above all she was a dancer - an entertainer. Born into the Edwardian theatre, she led an adventurous life in South Africa, India and the Far East in the Twenties and Thirties. She survived some of the great upheavals of the century; she saw the Empire in its prime, and she was there in its last declining years. Married three times, she knew triumph and tragedy; and she died in Bournemouth, alone and unknown.

"Playing the Empire" tells of her adventures - appearing in music hall as a child, playing the West End in her teens, joining a Russian ballet company in Vladivostok, marrying in Shanghai, travelling in a home-made caravan through India and the Far East, escaping from the Japanese, settling in post-war Malaya and founding a fashion house during the Emergency.

It's a life that could not have been lived at any other time. 

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