‘Anne Boleyn’s tiara was from Claire’s Accessories’ – how we made Six: the musical

What if Henry VIII's wives were a pop group? The makers of the smash hit recall how Catherine of Aragon was very much Beyonce, Anne Boleyn had Lily Allen vibes - while Jane Seymour was a sort of Adele

In 2017, Cambridge University's musical theatre society invited applications for an original show that it could take to the Edinburgh fringe. Toby Marlow and I were third years at the university, and had talked about doing a musical together for ages, so he applied, saying he would write a show with pop music and lots of women at its centre. Representation of women on stage was in the cultural conversation - later that year #MeToo happened.