The reviews are in for Nina: A Story about me & Nina Simone !
Josette Bushell-Mingo, and her three piece band, mix story and song as she draws together tales from the life of Nina Simone, Josette's own extraordinary career and the Black Lives Matter movement. This production is all sold out but you are welcome to join our returns queue from 6.45pm each night.
You can read the reviews below and check out what audiences have been saying so far in our Storify round up.
Josette Bushell-Mingo and band in Nina at the Young Vic. Photo by Simon Annand
★★★★
“An electric storm of a performance”
Time Out | Read the full review
★★★★
"Amid this darkness, there’s also much light. Bushell-Mingo inhabits instinctively the union of joy and protest in Simone’s sound."
The Times| Read the full review
★★★★
"Josette Bushell-Mingo’s searing one-woman show pushes the boundaries of theatre."
The Stage| Read the full review
Nina: A Story about me & Nina Simone runs in the Young Vic Maria studio until 29 July before it heads to the Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
