Anoushka Lucas. Photography Natasha Pszenicki, Assistant Monty Vann, Styled by Alice Hare (jumpsuit Lisou London), Hair and Make-up Caroline Bracke
(Picture: PHOTOGRAPHY NATASHA PSZENICKI)Anoushka Lucas was never supposed to be here. She’s sitting across from me at the Young Vic, where she’s playing Laurey in Daniel Fish’s dark, stripped back, Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Oklahoma! There’s a giant picture of her face emblazoned across the front of the theatre - but this wasn’t the plan. “I’m basically a failed pop star,” she tells me, and then bursts out laughing.
She finds herself in this massive lead role after a handful of captivating stage performances; devastating as an uncertain young queer woman in Chiaroscuro at the Bush in 2019, as the haunting presence of an old love in After Life at the National Theatre last summer, and as Princess Katherine opposite Kit Harington in the Donmar’s Henry V just last month.
