Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Preview: Bristol Old Vic stages Nanny – a new play about friendship and staying true to yourself despite it all, featuring two below average nannies

Folio Theatre announces the full cast and creative team for the world première of Nanny, a new comedy with music set to open at Bristol Old Vic this month.

Co-written by Alana Ramsey, Lizzie Stables and Jenny Rainsford with songs by Matthew Floyd Jones (Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!), Nanny follows two below average nannies with bigger than average ambitions.  It’s a poignant and funny new play about friendship, faltering, and staying true to yourself despite it all

Jenny Rainsford (Fleabag) directs her fellow co-writers Alana Ramsey and Lizzie Stables.

Co-writer and director Jenny Rainsford said today, “You wouldn’t want to pay Leanne and Amy 18 pounds an hour to look after your kids but I know our audiences will happily watch them mess up their lives for eternity”

Completing the creative team are: Cecilia Carey (design), Johanne Jensen (lighting) and Asaf Zohar (sound).

The production runs at Bristol Old Vic from 31 January – 10 February 2024 and will then transfer to Theatre Royal Plymouth, running on 27 and 28 February.

She said to me this morning “everything you do fails’’ because I spent twenty minutes trying to work out how to fit her car seat. She just sat there just going “fail, fail, fail, fail, fail” while I was scrabbling away on YouTube looking up how you fit the Maxi Cosi 10. “Everything you do fails.” EVERYTHING? Who says that to someone? Who turns up to work and gets told that?!

Yeah, that’s brutal. And she’s backed it up with evidence.

Meet Lea and Amy. Below average nannies with bigger than average ambitions.

Every week they take the kids they look after to a ‘Stay and Play’ class and seize a moment between the snacks, songs, snot and screaming to plot the twists and turns of their real careers as a comedy double act.

Matthew Floyd Jones (Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder!) writes sublime original music and songs for this world premiere of a poignant and funny new play about friendship, faltering, and staying true to yourself despite it all. Script and story by Alana Ramsey (The Crown), Lizzie Stables (The Inbetweeners), and Jenny Rainsford (Fleabag).

Discover more about Folio Theatre Company.