Midnight in Nashville at The Glitch

Midnight in Nashville at the Glitch theatre in Waterloo: Out of Prison and in the Studio

Murder, prison, hard living, and a chance at redemption. It’s all in a night’s work when you’re making country music.

The London premiere of Midnight in Nashville puts you in the sound booth for a rollercoaster of live music and raw emotions. A funny, profane, and heartbreaking new play by Lee Papa (“a tornado of a writer,” says the New York Times), it’s on at 19:00 from 26 August to 7 September at the Glitch at 134 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, SE1 7AE.

Meet Marcy Aurora, a honky-tonk angel who was headed to the heights of country music fame when she committed a murder she doesn’t regret. Out of prison after 20 years, Marcy is in an all-night recording session in a studio in Nashville, trying to lay down the tracks for a new album, pissed off at a nosy reporter, wrestling with memories of her incarceration, and fighting with Colleen, the sound engineer, about what her real voice is now.

Midnight in Nashville stars Kentucky-born, London-based actor and singer Biz Lyon as Marcy and features Catherine Mieses as Colleen, with Lyon singing and playing live original and old folk and blues songs. It’s directed by Alex Stroming, who last year helmed an acclaimed production of Scenes with girls at the Golden Goose Theatre.

The show debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2025, where it was named one of the nine shows to see by the Edinburgh Reporter while The List gave it four stars and talked about its “brutal honesty”: “The everyday heartache of Lee Papa’s new play could be set to a million country numbers.” Another reviewer praised it for being about “a middle-aged woman defiantly finding her way back into the world… and that’s a tale that has resonance beyond its time and place.” Check out our Instagram page to see how enthusiastic our audiences were, too.