Nan, Me and Barbara Pravi

Important Update regarding tonight's show in Drimpton

The company have arrived at the venue and we are delighted to confirm that tonight's performance IS going ahead as planned. As a reminder, the doors will open at around 7pm and a bar will be available. Running time is circa 70mins, no interval. View our FAQ's

A critically acclaimed memoir of care, crisis and Eurovision by the creator of I, AmDram, Hannah Maxwell.

“I wish I could say here our story starts. But this story starts later, and ended earlier. Is entirely fictional, and completely true. Voila.”

In 2021, Hannah Maxwell moved back to the Home Counties to care for her terminally ill grandfather. But this show isn’t about that. It’s about France’s Eurovision star Barbara Pravi, who’s just lovely.

In between cooking, cleaning and Countdown, Maxwell escapes into an intensifying fantasy of ballroom dances, heartfelt ballads, Parisian cafés, and 'definitely-not-creepy' plots to engineer a meetcute with a random foreign celebrity. It’s La La Land meets Mission Impossible meets Hannah’s nan.

Combining spoken-word, video and chanson francaise this Maxwell invites you to sit down at the kitchen table and talk through grief and care, addiction and recovery, and hope and coping in unprecedented times.

Nan, Me & Barbara Pravi was crowned Winner of the 2023 Summerhall Lustrum Award and Nominated for the BBC/Popcorn Group Award for New Writing.

Recommended 16+ (12+ at parents’ discretion)
Running time: 70mins (no interval) 

www.hannah-maxwell.com