It’s the music that carries the emotional weight in this tale of love, loss and roots rock, starring the superb Arinzé Kene

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Imelda Staunton simmered, Sondheim’s showgirls sizzled, Bryan Cranston gave us a cathode-ray Lear, and Jez Butterworth found love in the time of hunger-strikes

Lee Hall and Vicky Featherstone’s riotous take on Alan Warner’s novel The Sopranos stormed the Edinburgh festival and then struck out on a Scottish tour. We asked the six actors playing the anarchic Catholic schoolgirls to keep diaries along the way