This new restaging, by Jess Edwards, features a piano at the centre of the staging – which acts as a means of escape and expression, but also as a symbol of colonialism and racial struggle. Lucas plays Lylah, who we see at various stage of her life, growing up at home in a council flat in Hammersmith, later as a musician courted, but exploited, by the music industry who want to make her into the next big pop star… if only she’ll do it their way.
Anoushka Lucas on her astonishing theatrical tour-de-force Elephant
