“My mum was a single parent in Dartford, and saw a notice in our local library for a production of Annie... I wasn’t interested, I was a sporty girl but she walked me down to the village hall... I was just in my PE kit when all the other girls were stage kids in their glitzy outfit outfits, I looked like such a misfit, a skinny little runt, but the director took one look at me and her eyes lit up... she said, ‘there’s our Annie.’”
Lara Pulver is in her dressing room in the depths of the Barbican, with the new run of Fiddler on the Roof under way and scoring another round of 5 stars and ticket mayhem, and she’s recounting where it all started. She’s thinking about mums a lot, having two young children of her own and because she is playing Golde in the musical, the mum of five girls and arguably her husband too, the exuberant and chaotic Tevye (played by Adam Dannheisser).
