Ruth Leon recommends…Best thing about religion is the lighting

Ruth Leon recommends…Best thing about religion is the lighting

Ruth Leon recommends

norman lebrecht

July 22, 2021

Last Easter – Orange Tree Theatre
 Click here for tickets : £15

22/23 July at 7.30  24 July at 8am  

Tinuke Craig directs Naana Agyei-Ampadu (June), Peter Caulfield (Gash), Jodie Jacobs (Leah), and Ellie Piercy (Joy).

Here’s a very different kind of theatre. Last Easter is a funny, moving and provocative play by Bryony Lavery, one of our most important contemporary playwrights, about the true nature of friendship. A quartet of theatre friends – a lighting designer, an actress, a prop maker and a drag singer – career across France. They’re on their way to Lourdes, hoping to find a miracle for their friend, the lighting designer, who has been diagnosed with a devastating illness. She’s a non-believer who thinks the only good thing about religion is the lighting.
They’re going to discover that miracles come in many different forms.

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