Blimey how we laughed and how we sobbed when we saw Di and Viv and Rose when the play was staged – with Anna Maxwell Martin, Gina McKee and Tamzin Outhwaite – at the Hampstead Theatre back in 2013. The boisterous, bumpy and beautiful story of the lifelong friendship between three girls after they are thrown together at university in the 1980s is by turns touching, funny, shocking and heartbreaking as their relationships (and all the ensuing jealousy, support, neglect and devotion that come along for the crack) ride the storm and calms of love, careers, money, children and sexuality. Its long overdue transfer to the west end (with Outhwaite now joined by Samantha Spiro and Jenna Russell) has just been announced – book and take your girlfriends with you, the ones who’ve been there in good times and bad, who’ve seen you at your most beautiful and at your very, very ugliest…