Practically Imperfect

“finds new terrain” - The Guardian on The Telling​

The very private writer PL Travers lives quietly in Chelsea. Out of the blue, her very own creation, Mary Poppins, suddenly appears in Travers’ study, asking difficult questions Travers would rather not answer. Rather than the Banks family, Mary Poppins has come to sort out the acerbic writer herself. But Travers is a force to be reckoned with too. So who will control the narrative and win the battle of wills?

Soundtracking the fun-filled chaos, Mary Poppins, handily equipped with an accordion, performs the kind of music PL Travers actually wanted in the Mary Poppins film (including Edwardian songs such as 'Lily of Laguna').

A brand new play with music by award-winning writer Clare Norburn, directed by BAFTA-nominated BBC director, Nicholas Renton (Mrs Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters, Musketeers, Lewis). Starring acclaimed actor Lottie Walker as PL Travers and actor-musician Joanna Brown as Mary Poppins.