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Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour
National Theatre, Dorfman, SE1
3/5
A multi-award winning sell-out at Edinburgh fringe festival last year, Our Ladies tells the story of six Catholic school choir girls who go on the lash as soon as they’ve sung their last high note.
Based on the novel The Sopranos by Alan Warner and adapted for stage by Billy Elliot author and playwright Lee Hall, the play is billed as a musical.
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