Amy Lennox

My name is Isabella Way and you're listening to the London Theatre Review.

Best performance or show I've ever seen on stage and why? One of the best performances I've seen or I've ever seen on stage was Amy Lennox in Cabaret.

I actually went into the musical blind and her screams in the final song Cabaret were so harrowing.

I really couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks to come.

So from a political drama to a musical, an unexpected musical and something that we were really, really looking forward to seeing with quite mixed reviews and wondering how they were going to put the iconic Thelma and Louise 1991 film.

into an energetic new musical on stage led by two powerhouse performers, Rachel Tucker as Louise and Amy Lennox as Thelma.

I know.

Can I just, before we go into it, I want to tell you a little story about me and Olivia Colman.

And then I saw her in Come From Away as the pilot.

And it's just wonderful to see her tackling another really compelling role.

And also quite interestingly, Amy Lennox has also been on the podcast because I interviewed her backstage on opening night of So, yeah, and she was equally captivating as Thelma.

She brought humour, more humour, more of a comedy role and warmth, but also emotional depth.

This show is all about the incredible feminist classic Thelma & Louise and the incredible stage adaptation of it.

First, you'll hear my post-show conversation on stage with an audience with stars Rachel Tucker and Amy Lennox as well as creative consultant Imogen Brodie and Nadia Fall, the artistic director of the Young Vic in London.

We were due to be joined by Callie Khouri, who wrote the classic feminist film Thelma & Louise in the early '90s, and you have to remember the landscape of film at that time.

For her to have broken through with such an extraordinary film about women taking agency and women breaking away from oppression and the iconography of the patriarchy, and to make it such a incredible feel-good romp, um, that captured everyone's imagination, and also to then win an Oscar for Best Screenplay for her first-ever movie and understand what an incredible achievement that was.

So actually, we've got a much, much more exciting in-depth conversation with Callie than I was expecting to have.

So let me take you now to the stage of the Young Vic, where we have a much shorter conversation with the stars and some of the creative team, and then I'll take you to my one-on-one with Callie Khouri.

[upbeat music] The Spontaneity Shop presents The Guilty Feminist with me, Deborah Frances-White, and my very special guests, Nadia Fall, Rachel Tucker, Amy Lennox, Imogen Brodie, and Callie Khouri talking about Thelma & Louise.

Thank you so much, everybody, for staying.

Yes, yes.

And both of the actresses, uh, think we have them here, Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker-

Yep

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Music and lyrics by Nico Case, directed by Chip Coleman.

starring Amy Lennox as Thelma and Rachel Tucker as Louise.

Yes.

Where do we start? I mean, we went for a very nice meal before.

That's quite good.

And that worked well, didn't it? That did work well.

The, obviously Rachel Tucker and Amy Lennox together, like their relationship was, was really strong and really, really nice.

There was some great chemistry between them.