The Sopranos is written by contemporary British playwright Lee Hall, based on Alan Warner's 1998 Scottish novel The Sopranos. The production won the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best British Comedy. Featuring six actresses and a live band in a superb dramatisation of the novel, The Sopranos, the story rolls unstoppably forward, like the Electric Light Orchestra songs it is interspersed with.
The lack of respect, insatiable appetites and absolute relish for each other's togetherness is in the spirit of medieval tradition. The bohemianism of all the girls and their enjoyment of alcohol has something of Rabelais, their vitality and energy has something of Chaucer, and yet they are absolutely modern and contemporary characters."
Lee Hall
A bunch of girls from an all-girls school are about to perform in a choral singing competition, but things sort of start to go awry. Things are changing by the minute, nothing is as it seemed a moment ago, there's a rush of events that can't be stopped - a party, a party, a crazy carnival. When this party is over, everyone has to deal with the consequences...