The Grocers' Evening

In 1981, playwriting legend Arnold Wesker ( the Roots trilogy , Chips With Everything , The Kitchen , Annie Wobbler ) wrote Annie Wobbler especially for his friend, Olivier Award winner Nichola McAuliffe.

Two years later, it was produced in Birmingham, on the London Fringe and transferred to the West End. In three short plays, Nicola McAuliffe’s tour de force performance presents us with three very different Annie’s: Anna – a Gen Z graduate battling her anxiety… Annabella – the fey hit novelist who becomes an uncompromising cougar… Annie – a homeless geriatric revisiting her past late at night in a railway station.

Without natural or constructed beauty to smooth the way, each Annie constructs a mask to present to the world, confronting their ‘Imposter Syndrome’ with defiance, courage and, above all, humour…