Read the full article from Aleks Sierz, published on 11 August 2016, Tags: Alan Warner, Aleks Sierz, Billy Elliot, Bob Marley, Caroline Deyga, chloe lamford, convent, Dawn Sievewright, Electric Light Orchestra, Frances Mayli McCann, Jeff Lynne, Karen Fishwick, Kirsty MacLaren, Lee Hall, Live Theatre, Martin Lowe, Melissa Allan, Music, National Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland, Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour, pop music, Roman Catholicism, Scottish theatre, song, Sopranos, teenagers, Vicky Featherstone. “Delightfully potty-mouthed and sex-obsessed, it's not to be missed”. On the way, the girls have a series of adventures, which mainly involve drink and sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll, and each experiences changes that mark a decisive step towards adulthood. She is soon matter-of-factly informed that it is ‘just like snot, only warmer.’.
Caroline Deyga (Chell), Karen Fishwick (Kay), Kirsty MacLaren (Manda), Frances Mayli McCann (Kylah) and Dawn Sievewright (Fionnula) will all reprise their roles, with Isis Hainsworth joining the company as Orla. Doing a job like this has made me go, "Well actually I'm a woman", because being a woman is so much wider than that bracket. your browser cookie settings.
Vicky Featherstone’s wonderful production, co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and Live Theatre, and which was first seen in Edinburgh last year, has all the flamboyance, hilarity and theatricality that seems to typify Scottish stages at the moment, and the evening is funny and touching and thrilling, all at the same time. Their singing is both heartwarmingly sweet and stompingly raunchy. I try to think that it's not my job as an actor and it's not my business as a human to care what they're doing. We had found the people that the show is about. The opening moments sum up the show.
Each of the six has a distinct mix of vulgar energy and vulnerability. Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour tickets are now on sale to 2 September 2017. Kirsty: I love that there was a school where half the class did The Crucible and half the class Our Ladies! The six leads are the only actors, joined by three female band members lingering in the background. It’s a musical evening full of joyful singing — mixing classics by Mendelssohn and Bartok with a best-of chunk of the back catalogue from the Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne — that transports you to a different world. Frankie: My parents are so proud of what I do, I wasn't ever afraid of any of my family members coming to see it but I did warn them because I'm from a Catholic family. And now I just wear one fucking bra, because this is me! • Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is at the National Theatre until 1 October. They lift their eyes to the hills and sing a snatch of Mendelssohn like angels. These 5 Breakout Bedroom Pop Stars To Know.
As an actress, I now just go "If you don't want me, you don't want me, that's alright" whereas before I used to pretend to be alright it while I was crying my eyes out. For instance Orla (Isis Hainsworth), recovering from cancer and with less sexual experience than her equally underage friends, asks Manda (Kirsty MacLaren) what jizz is. Strictly limited season from 9 May to 2 Sep 2017 Running Time: 1 hour and 45 mins. The play exists now as a script too. The music has been sourced, arranged and supervised by Martin Lowe. The girls are perhaps no older than 16 and yet we see Fionnula (Dawn Sievewright) sincerely lamenting on ‘what we could have been’.
Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour, the Olivier-winning musical that tells the story of what six Catholic schoolgirls from Oban get up to on a choir trip to Edinburgh (think drugs, sex, and arson for a start), is hilarious, outrageous, and heartbreaking in equal measure. Swearing more than a band of sailors, the cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour present an entirely candid portrait of female teenage sexuality and lives. As the floor of the stage becomes more prominently coated in empty bottles, shot glasses and cigarette packets, the play fizzes with hormones and the quest for sensation. Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, Tweets by https://twitter.com/MyTheatreMates/, NEWS: Hampstead Theatre reopens with 60th anniversary production of The Dumb Waiter, NEWS: Birthday Honours for Maureen Lipman, David Suchet, Adrian Lester, Arinzé Kene, Tommy Steele & Judy Craymer, REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Last Five Years at Southwark Playhouse, NEWS: Stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful transfers to the West End, ‘It is the small moments that matter’: APOLLO 13 – THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON – Original Theatre (Online review), NEWS: Julian Clary leads all-star cast in Pantoland at the London Palladium, NEWS: Old Vic announces programme of online work through to spring 2021 with A Christmas Carol as next In Camera production, ‘A flawless piece of work’: WAIT FOR ME (Online review) ★★★★★, ‘Much to enjoy & explore’: In Someone Else’s Shoes: Edinburgh’s Unexpected Summer (Online review) ★★★★, NEWS: Bridge Theatre extends season as Talking Heads shows visit Sheffield & Leeds. Unless you really mind that the story seems set in a nostalgic past when schoolgirls had no mobile phones and sallied forth with the battle-cry of “We’re going mental!”, this is an evening that is life-affirming, ridiculously funny and completely alive — little short of miraculous. ", “An absolute blast, full of filth and fury, wit and wonder”, "Sublime singing and an exhilarating blast of female agency. Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott M. Delman and Tulchin Bartner Productions present the National Theatre of Scotland and Live Theatre production of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour.
And also it's the best job that I've ever done and the most amazing experience that I've ever had so - not that we're thinking about this yet, gotta get through this week let alone the next two months - it will be a difficult one to beat. On the night I saw Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, on the National Theatre’s smallest stage, the audience cheered when the cast took their curtain … Thy are warned by Sister that they are not just representing the eponymous school (nicknamed ‘The Virgin Megastore’) but also God himself.
Featuring the songs of ELO, Our Ladies is a glorious anthem to friendship, youth andgrowing up disgracefully. A joyous punch in the air.
"It is just a play about a bunch of lasses, and we are lasses and that's what you need to be to be in a play about lasses". There’s a neat contrast between the small-town life of the six and their explosion onto the scene of the big city, and pretty soon the problems of growing up — unwanted pregnancy, sexual confusion and fear of death — come storming onto the stage. Kirsty: It's quite unapologetic, we're not doing things for effect. If you just love the feeling of leaving a show, surrounded by the gently glowing faces of happy fellow audience members, then this is one for you. It has made so much difference to lots of people about how they perceive theatre and how women are portrayed in theatre, but it is just us doing a play and the impact that it has is the impact that it has - whether that's negative or positive, people walking out, people standing up at the end.
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