BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Why Natalie Dormer is happy to play a dish called Vanda as she transforms into a dominatrix

Natalie Dormer strides into a rehearsal room in stiletto heels, kicks them off and proceeds to transform herself into… a dominatrix.

It’s one of several guises Dormer assumes when she performs scenes from David Ives’s scorching play Venus In Fur.

For 20 minutes, I’m transfixed as I watch the actress deliver a comic tour de force.