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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Rock Follies review – girl power pioneers earn their encore

(from left) Carly Bawden (Anna), Zizi Strallen (Q) and Angela Marie Hurst (Dee) in Rock Follies at the Minerva theatre.
Playing the game … (from left) Carly Bawden (Anna), Zizi Strallen (Q) and Angela Marie Hurst (Dee) in Rock Follies at the Minerva theatre. Photograph: Johan Persson

Almost two decades before the Spice Girls gave us girl power, a fictional trio of feminist rockers were shaking up Britain’s male-dominated music scene in the TV show, Rock Follies.

This production is based on that musical drama, aired between 1976 and 1977. The singers in the ironically named band, the Little Ladies (originally played with punkish camaraderie by Rula Lenska, Charlotte Cornwell and Julie Covington) are working-class Dee (Angela Marie Hurst), well-spoken Q (Zizi Strallen) and Anna (Carly Bawden) a middle-class housewife from Dorking.

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