Although actress Sarah Snook lives 16,000 kilometres or so away, her acclaimed arrival in a West End production of The Picture of Dorian Gray feels to her like a kind of homecoming. After all, she tells me, she’s following in the footsteps of her maternal grandmother, Philippa Robins, who was a British theatre actress in the 1930s until “the war broke out just after she started a job in South ­Africa and she couldn’t get back – so she emigrated to New Zealand”.

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