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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

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