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Actor, writer and Artistic Director @foliotheatre NANNY directed by Sara Pascoe is on @bbcsounds @bbcradio4

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Just 4 besties, celebrating our beautiful babe’s (big!🤫) birthday in Bourton-on-the-Water! 🥳🥂🍰

We love you so much @kellie_taylorx !! 💖

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It’s hot out there right now so I thought this might be useful for anyone struggling to get sunscreen on their back on their own.

I did a lot of solo travelling in my twenties, and a friend shared this brilliant sunscreen hack.

Once you’ve covered as much of your back as possible with the palm of your hand turn your hand over and spray sunscreen onto the back of your hand. Hopefully you can now reach the middle of your upper back. It’s been a total game-changer for me for this once impossible to reach area.

No travel buddy required or asking strangers.

If you don’t quite have the flexibility for this, as I know not everyone does you can try a wooden spoon 🥄 or spray sunscreen.

I’m now in my “cover-up, hat on, shade-seeking” era after my husbands melanoma diagnosis, but for those of you rocking strappy tops and swimwear this summer, this will help you stay safe and stay protected.

Tell me - did you know this trick before?

Follow @barleydesigns for hope, joy, gorgeous art for your walls and the occasional sun safety reminder!

#summer #sunsafety #melanomaawareness #wearsunscreen #sunscreenhack

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A huge thank you to everyone who has listened to NANNY, shared it, recommended it, reviewed it and been in touch since Thursday’s broadcast.

It means so much to hear the ways the story has resonated with people.

If you haven’t had a chance to listen yet, NANNY is available now on BBC Sounds, starring Alana Ramsey, Lizzie Stables and Matthew Floyd Jones, and directed by Sara Pascoe 🎧

🔗 Link in bio

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Brilliant, so much fun! Mahoosive congrats to all involved 🥂 Defo worthy of a listen, it’s fab! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wkjf @foliotheatre #comedy #play #musical #radio

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Tomorrow!

One day to go until NANNY airs on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow at 2.15pm

We couldn’t be prouder of the response the show has already received and we can't wait to share it with our audiences.

A funny, heartfelt musical comedy about friendship, ambition, motherhood and trying to hold your life together through it all.

Tomorrow, 2.15pm @bbcradio4

Huge thanks to the team and to everyone who's been involved in getting it here "your talent is stupendous!"

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We are absolutely delighted by the support for NANNY ahead of next Thursday’s BBC Radio 4 broadcast

Pick of the Week in:
*The Observer — “This delightful musical comedy captures the multiple pressures faced by thirty somethings”
*The Sunday Times — “Just the sort of thing that should be bringing a younger audience to the station”
*Radio Times — “Smart, funny and refreshing”
*The i Weekend
*The Mail on Sunday
*The Times

Plus:
*The Telegraph — “Like Motherland but with songs”
and ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Daily Mail

21 May, 2.15pm on @bbcradio4

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Really lovely feature on Nanny in this week’s Total TV Guide 📺 🙌 Thank you so much @daisyhall1 @totaltvguide

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So grateful for this lovely preview of NANNY in this week’s @radiotimes:

“Genuine laugh out loud moments… smart, funny and refreshing mix of musical theatre with radio drama.”

Our first BBC Radio 4 commission airs next Thursday, 21 May at 2.15pm @bbcradio4

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We’re proud to develop new writing with and by artists in the Southwest, with a commitment that continues beyond the first production, giving plays new life in radio/screen.

To celebrate our 10th anniversary season, we’re looking back at some of our favourite Folio shows from the last decade!

1) Our first show, Unearthed by @alysmetcalf - directed by @kimlpearce - toured across London and the Southwest, and was named one of the Guardian’s shows of the year.

2) Our second show, Reel Life by @alysmetcalf, was developed in association with partner charity @coppafeel and played at @theatreroyalbath1805 @theoldtownhall.trowbridge and St James Theatre (London), directed by @adamlenson

3) In 2018, we commissioned The Edit, the debut play by award-winning writer Sarah Gordon, which toured throughout the Southwest, directed by @huftonjoe

4) 2019 saw us tour Believe by Russ Tunney @1piratesmall around community centres and village halls in partnership with Pound Arts and Rural Arts Wiltshire, directed by @lizzie_stables

5) In response to Covid-19, we made our first foray into film in 2020, producing World Wide Wiltshire by @hannah.treadaway and David Ellington, celebrating our Wiltshire home, in co-production with Wiltshire Creative, directed by @jonewmandirector

6) In 2021 in association with English Touring Theatre and Pound Arts, we went further with digital production and developed a film adaptation of @alysmetcalf play Reel Life, our second theatre show.

7) In 2023, we produced our first musical Nanny, which played at Bristol Old Vic Weston Studio, directed by @jenny.rainsford. The BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Nanny, directed by @sara.pascoe will form part of our 10th anniversary season!

To find out more about our work, check out our website www.foliotheatre.co.uk

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We‘re delighted to officially announce our 10th anniversary ‘Season of Care‘, a programme of new work, artist development and community partnerships exploring the many different forms of care.

Featuring:

🌟 The first stage adaptation of Dr Kathryn Mannix’s best-selling memoir, With The End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial.

🌟Folio’s first radio drama, an adaptation of our original musical ‘NANNY’ directed by @sara.pascoe

🌟A new play in development with local playwright @florenceespeutnickless

🌟 An expansion of our creative mentoring programme for young carers

🌟 A new creative programme for women seeking asylum, in partnership with The Harbour Project.

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Nanny is a play with songs about female friendship, ambition and the realities of modern caregiving.

Set over six weeks at a stay-and-play toddler group, it follows actor-nannies Amy and Leanne as they juggle demanding employers, financial instability and dwindling creative opportunities, while attempting to build a comedy double act.

Episodic in structure, the piece explores the tension between nurturing other people’s children and sustaining your own ambitions, asking what it means to “grow up” when life hasn’t unfolded as expected. As pressures mount — from work, relationships and the question of motherhood — their partnership is tested.

The radio version of the debut play for stage, written by actors Alana Ramsey and Lizzie Stables, with Jenny Rainsford.

With original songs by Matthew Floyd Jones, co-creator of West End musical Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder! and one half of Frisky & Mannish.

Directed by comedian and writer Sara Pascoe and produced by David Morley for Perfectly Normal productions, Nanny is funny, sharp and deeply relatable - a love letter to big dreams, messy friendships, and the invisible work that keeps everything going.

Alana Ramsey plays Amy
Lizzie Stables plays Lea
Matthew Floyd Jones plays Kim

Writers: Alana Ramsey, Lizzie Stables, Jenny Rainsford

Music: Matthew Floyd Jones

Sound Design: Chris O’Shaughnessy
Producers: David Morley, Alana Ramsey, Lizzie Stables
Director: Sara Pascoe

A Folio Theatre / Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4 @bbcradio4 @bbcwriters @alana_ramsey_cobb @lizzie_stables @matthewfloydjones @sara.pascoe @jenny.rainsford @gabyjerrardpr

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If Carlsberg did girls trips…!!
🇫🇷🥂🧀
@kellie_taylorx @lizzie_stables

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