Part the History Boys with a dash of Miss Jean Brodie, this wonderful show displays the veracity and madness of young women rarely represented on stage without a damning lesson to be learned.

There plenty of touching moments mixed into this profane and utterly hilarious Edinburgh odyssey with song, and Our Ladies never plays them mawkishly, conversely the darkness hidden in each girl;s life is swept up into the narrative, processed by the others as it might be in real life, then backed up with a timely ELO tune.

Where others might be put off by the foul mouthed nature of the Choir, I felt warmed to see a production where young women swear, drink and create chaos instead of the sedate idea of female friendship. Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is not just a wonderfully written and acted show, it's a genuinely thrilling and clever work that gives young women agency and doesn't judge the teenage experience. The only shame is that the age group represented in the show are too young to see it.

Now showing at the Duke of York's Theatre

Reviewed May 17th by Kitty
@ThisIsKittyMac