Shanay Holmes, BBC
Oliver!: 'Nancy shows what women are capable of'
An actor in the latest West End adaptation of Oliver! praised the production for how it represented women.
Buckinghamshire-born actress Shanay Holmes is playing Nancy in the Lionel Bart musical, staged at the Gielgud Theatre.
She said she played a powerful and vulnerable character who remained just as relevant as when Charles Dickens published the original Oliver Twist story in 1837.
The star said: “I challenge anyone to not know a Nancy; a strong powerful woman who self-sacrifices, brings joy to other people and depletes herself so entirely because she wants others to feel good”.
“Playing Nancy has really shown me who I am as a woman and what woman are capable of,” she added….
Oliver!
Gielgud Theatre, London
