DRITËRO KASAPI
Nina - a story about me and Nina Simone




Riksteatern/Sweden and Unity Theatre Liverpool/UK 2016
Written by Josette Bushell Mingo and Dritëro Kasapi
Directing and Video: Dritëro Kasapi
Stage and costume: Rosa Maggiora
Lightdesign: Matt Haskins
Ensemble: Josette Bushell Mingo
Orchestra: Shapor Bastansiar,
Shaney Forbes, Jerome Wells
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PRESS
‘Scalding’ Ben Brantley – New York Times,
★★★★ “Searing tribute restarts Simone's revolution” Lyn Gardner - The Guardian
★★★★★ ‘Josette Bushell-Mingo brilliantly channels both Nina Simone's musicianship and anger at racism’ Joyce McMillan - The Scotsman
★★★★★ ‘With a performance like Bushell-Mingo’s, you really feel you are lucky to be in the room.’ Emily Jane Kerr - BroadwayBaby.com
★★★★★ ‘This spectacular piece of theatre offers an unflinching look at the post-civil rights movement world’ Jafar Iqbal - Critically Speaking
★★★★ ‘Josette Bushell-Mingo blows the roof off with this searing look at the life of Nina Simone’ Caroline McGinn - Time Out London
★★★★ ‘Bushell-Mingo inhabits instinctively the union of joy and protest in Simone’s sound’ Kate Maltby - The Times
★★★★ ‘Josette Bushell-Mingo’s searing one-woman show pushes the boundaries of theatre’ Neil Norman - The Stage
★★★★ 'Nina's a protest as much as a performance.' Matt Trueman - WhatsOnStage
★★★★ ‘Bushell-Mingo delivers an enthralling performance’ Nathaniel McKenzie - CultureWhisper
★★★★ Fest Mag
★★★★★ “Quite simply, outstanding theatre” Chris High – Purple Revolver
★★★★★ “The National Touring Theatre of Sweden and Liverpool’s Unity Theatre may just have produced one of this decade’s most important pieces of Theatre.”
Juliet A. Green – Afridiziak