Girl From Nowhere

"If you hear this from anyone else, they'll tell it wrong"

America, 1969. Vietnam. Apollo 11. Woodstock. The country may be bursting with the vibes of peace, love and rock 'n' roll, but Jeannie Hogan is back home in deepest Texas, disgraced after a disastrous rock tour with her band. Subjected once again to the small-town business of a home she's outgrown, Jeannie stews in her childhood bedroom, desperate to escape.

But there’s something she has to do first.

This brave new one-woman play seizes the cult of celebrity and stares straight at the ugliness of ambition, allowing us an extraordinarily intimate glimpse behind closed doors as Jeannie's world comes crashing down.

✮✮✮✮‘The writing is classy and clever... Ms Rigby deserves to go on to great things” (Varsity)

✮✮✮✮’held the audience tingling and transfixed... the finished article might be a bit extraordinary’ (Tab)

✮✮✮✮ ‘a moving portrait of a fragile life’ (TCS)