Lucy Davies Is Leading the Way for Socially Responsible Theatre

29.11.2022 - 21:09 / glamour.com

Glamour. "The social purpose and the commercial flare are completely aligned."This content can also be viewed on the site it from.In anticipation of Young Vic's newest show, Mandela, we spoke with Davies about the future of social responsibility in the arts, being a mother, and so much more in Glamour's latest installment of .Glamour: What time do you get up? Lucy Davies: Early, six. I've always been an early riser.

I'm either off or on. Once I'm awake, I'm ready. I'm a and I'm a which follows a ritual of packing lunches and then getting on a train into the city.Are you a coffee or tea person? I'm a herbal person.

I've never drunk coffee or tea.What was your childhood dream job? I had quite a radical childhood growing up in the 1970s and the 1980s. It was a very supercharged political time in the U.K. and worldwide.

My family was super engaged, and it was a childhood full of conversation, ideas, possibilities, and women's politics. I felt very empowered to do something that I loved. I never had a map or a career trajectory.

It was all about doing good and being creative. That was my environment.Best parenting advice you’d give a new mom I had my children quite late. I was 35 and 37, so my career coincided with my parenting.

But when I was 30, just before I married and had children, I went back to university and did a Master's in Philosophy. Philosophy is the most fantastic training for parenthood and leadership. It makes you morally curious, humble, and playful in how you create and live alongside these new humans.