Lily Allen says West End debut comes with 'huge amount of pressure'

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LONDON : British singer-songwriter Lily Allen has performed in front of tens of thousands but she says taking the stage in London's West End is 'much scarier'.Allen, who rose to fame in the late-2000s with hits such as 'Smile' and 'Not Fair', is making her theatre debut in '2:22 - A Ghost Story', a supern

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LONDON : British singer-songwriter Lily Allen has performed in front of tens of thousands but she says taking the stage in London's West End is"much scarier".

"I know people say 'well, you've been on the stage before', but it is a completely different experience," Allen, who has spent five weeks rehearsing for the role, told Reuters.The 36-year-old, said she was settling into a new life in New York with her family and had no acting ambitions when, out of the blue, she was offered the part.

In"2:22 - A Ghost Story" she plays Jenny, a young woman who believes her new home is haunted. Her conviction causes tension in her relationship with her rationalist husband Sam (Hadley Fraser). Julia Chan and Jake Wood also co-star.

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