Wise Children
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Life-enhancing, brilliantly uninhibited, all-singing and dancing
‘Let’s have all the skeletons out of the closet, today, of all days!’
It’s 23 April, Shakespeare’s birthday.
In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance – twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river – are celebrating their 75th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his generation Melchior Hazard turns 100 on the same day. As does his twin brother Peregrine. If, in fact, he’s still alive. And if, in truth, Melchior is their real father after all…
A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope. Expect show girls and Shakespeare, sex and scandal, music, mischief and mistaken identity – and butterflies by the thousand.
Emma Rice (Romantics Anonymous, Tristan & Yseult, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk and Brief Encounter) brings her unique, exuberantly impish vision to Angela Carter’s great last novel, Wise Children, launching her new theatre company of the same name.
An Old Vic and Wise Children production, co-produced by the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Oxford Playhouse and York Theatre Royal
Sherrie Eugene-Hart is our interpreter for the Signed performance on Sat 2 Feb at 2:30pm.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE... Emma Rice’s season of specially-curated films at Watershed, All the Stage’s a World (6–27 Jan), that capture the spirit of performance in a thrillingly diverse way. Also, on Sun 27 Jan, Emma Rice and Gifford Circus Founder Nell Gifford explore what life is like for artists on the road in Greasepaint and Grit: The Tradition of Touring Theatre.
Pure, unadulterated theatre
Razzle-dazzle showbiz twins bewitch and delight...inventive, smart and saucy
A pleasing oddity, tinged with melancholy... joyous and inventive
A controlled explosion of theatrical glee
One huge love letter to theatre
Bonkers but brilliant, a very English Rice pudding
