Show Notes
This week, Martin Guerre comes to the Old Vic in a stripped-back, 90-minute version of the 1996 musical from the writers behind Les Misérables. Director Matthew Warchus has radically reinvented the show along with writers Claude Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, swapping sweeping spectacle for folk horror. Nick Clark has had the songs on repeat ever since. Nancy would quite happily never hear them again. Can Nick Curtis broker a peace?
Then Nancy and Nick Curtis head to the Donmar Warehouse for Ilford Boy, Danny Lee Wynter’s play about a mixed-race teenager growing up in nineties East London.
Nancy talks to one of the pod's favourite people, the brilliant Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, about Blood of My Blood at the Royal Court. And Bridgerton’s Isabella Wei answers our five questions as she stars in the horror comedy The Hungry Ghost at the Bush Theatre.
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