Amara Okereke will play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady in the West End
(Picture: Photography Natasha Pszenicki, Styled by Alice Hare (dress Zeynep Kartal), Hair Dionne Thomas, Make-up Summer Dyason)Eliza Doolittle: is she a puppet, or a powerful woman? When you talk to Amara Okereke, who’ll play the role in Bartlett Sher’s My Fair Lady revival at the London Coliseum this summer, the answer is obvious.
“Basically, she’s everything that I would aspire to be. She’s this powerhouse – she’s a grafter, she’s ambitious, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get the things that she wants. She may not be educated, but she’s incredibly intelligent. And I think she’s so intelligent that she sees outside of the status quo,” Okereke, 25, tells me. Her day of rehearsals won’t begin until after our interview, but Eliza is buzzing through her brain already.
