Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour

TodayTix has £20 Rush seats for this - just had a look and was offered row H in the stalls

I was at the Press Night for this tonight and honestly, it was phenomenal. I can't recall the last time I saw a standing ovation so instantaneously at the end of the show. I reckon it's a particular type of humour (i.e. mine) and if you don't like crudeness and potty language you'd probably hate it, but it had me in stitches most of the way through.

I didn't really know what to expect going into it, and there were some more serious themes touched upon which I wasn't expecting, so it's just crude and crass for the sake of it.

Wholeheartedly recommend; can't wait to see the reviews!

Five stars.

I really enjoyed this at the NT but find the transfer a bit strange. I hope it does well but it didn't blow me away and I wonder who I'd recommend it to.

Is the Times not capable of giving more than 2 stars? They seem to give everything the same rating.

I thought I would have really loved this, but whilst I enjoyed it, I didn't totally connect with it somehow. The cast are excellent though and have superb voices.

It's a revue

With people who can't sing

It is aimed at teenagers

Girls

Totally inappropriate

Read interviews with Vicky Featherstone



Supposed to be empowering

Instead you see people behaving like twats on stage

And see why people fail to make a success of themselves

When I saw this show

I was sickened

Not only by what was on stage

But at the audience who seemed to find

Promiscuity and profanity casual social abuse of alcohol

Depicted by under age characters

So hysterical

Having worked on the other end of this

And seen the consequences

There is nothing empowering or funny about it

To then try and dress it up for middle class audiences

As an alternative and stylish night out

Is laughable

The characters depicted in the show

Need a stern telling off

And a social worker


And I found the description of having sex with a dying person

After removing his catheter

Particularly deplorable

And perverted

And likely it would be a criminal matter for the hospital

Rather than entertainment

The two people I went with left before the end and didn't speak with me again

Is showing them how to be chavvy abusers a good plan though?

Seems to underestimate female capabilities just as badly as those outdated sexist plays...

IMO theatre is not instructional, nor should it be a moraliser. It's because we see so few plays about young women and girls and the realities of their lives that one that shows some of the dark issues they grapple with and how they do so causes such contention. It doesn't underestimate their capabilities - teenage girls talk about sex, have sex, swear, drink, smoke, take risks and obsess over losing their virginity. There's nothing wrong with that phase of experimentation as a young person. It doesn't make them bad girls, incapable girls, girls that won't achieve things or girls that won't have a positive impact on society. Rather it is societies high expectation of how girls should conform and behave to be appropriate that causes damage and suggests that girls who do not fit this confining role don't deserve things...such as to have their stories told on stage. But if you look beyond those prejudices, the play has a lot of heart and a lot of truth and a lot of sadness and above all beautiful female solidarity.

So I really hope we see more of this kind of approach in the west end because I am sick to the teeth of what I'm seeing there these days. This is a nice shake-up.

It doesn't really look at the long term implications

Of their behaviour

Just presents it as japes

Doesn't show the consequences on their career and life prospects