Dark Vanilla Jungle – reviews of 'riveting' new stage show

Game of Thrones's Gemma Whelan 'brilliantly harrowing' as teenage sex slave, say critics

Dark Vanilla Jungle

What you need to know Philip Ridley's Dark Vanilla Jungle featuring Game of Thrones' Gemma Whelan has transferred to the Soho Theatre, London. Whelan, best known as Yara Greyjoy in the fantasy TV series, gives an "extraordinary performance" in Ridley's 75-minute monologue, which first appeared as a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe Festival show last year.

She plays Andrea, a lonely, desperate teenage girl, abandoned by her parents, groomed as a sex slave by a gangland pimp and pushed to do the unthinkable. David Mercatali directs. Runs until 13 April.

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