'Nan, Me and Barbara Pravi' by Hannah Maxwell
Schedule
Wed Nov 20 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Gillingham School | Shaftesbury, EN
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Gillingham School Theatre. 01747 213203. £12, £6 u18s ★★★★★ "A masterclass in storytelling." Time Out
A critically acclaimed memoir of care, crisis and Eurovision by the creator of I, AmDram, Hannah Maxwell.
In 2021, Hannah Maxwell moved back to the Home Counties to care for her terminally ill grandfather. But this show isn’t about that. It’s about France’s Eurovision star Barbara Pravi, who’s just lovely.
In between cooking, cleaning and Countdown, Maxwell escapes into an intensifying fantasy of ballroom dances, heartfelt ballads, Parisian cafés, and 'definitely-not-creepy' plots to engineer a meetcute with a random foreign celebrity. It’s La La Land meets Mission Impossible meets Hannah’s nan.
Combining spoken-word, video and chanson francaise this critically-acclaimed memoir invites you to sit down at the kitchen table and talk through grief and care, addiction, and recovery, and hope and coping in unprecedented times.
"Delivered with consummate comic timing and a final knockout punch." Lyn Gardner
Winner of the 2023 Summerhall Lustrum Award
Nominated for the BBC/Popcorn Group Award for New Writing
Recommended 16+ (12+ at parents’ discretion)
Touring Dorset with Artsreach, the county’s rural arts charity.
www.artsreach.co.uk
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Where is it happening?
Gillingham School, Hardings Lane,Gillingham, Dorset, Shaftesbury, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
