Diana Rigg as Huma Rosa in All About My Mother . Old Vic
In All About My Mother , Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning film of 1999, identity is not a stable character trait. A nurse becomes a prostitute, a nun becomes pregnant, a prostitute becomes a saint and several men become women. The much-anticipated stage adaptation of the film, now playing at the Old Vic Theatre in London until Nov. 24, doesn't settle on a single form either. Containing a film sequence and several plays-within-the-play, it is, like its transgender characters, a type of crossover a trans-genre. What it wants to say through its densely layered metadrama is that art, like humanity, may be fickle...
