Wise Children
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About Wise Children
‘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…
Join us and hundreds of other theatregoers as we indulge in this fabulous recording of this most theatrical of productions, where Emma Rice (Romantics Anonymous, Brief Encounter) brings her unique, exuberantly impish vision to Angela Carter’s great last novel. A big, bawdy tangle of joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope. Expect showgirls and Shakespeare, sex and scandal, music, mischief and mistaken identity – and butterflies by the thousand.
A Wise Children and The Old Vic production. Co-produced by the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Oxford Playhouse and York Theatre Royal.
Life-enhancing, brilliantly uninhibited, all-singing and dancing
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
Watch the Q&A
Join cast members from Wise Children for a special discussion centred on this most theatrical of productions.
This exciting Q&A is your chance to get inside the show and be there as cast and creative team reminisce with all of us about the show, explore where it came from, how it was made, the magic of Angela Carter's beloved book and much more.
Chaired by Bristol Old Vic Artistic Director Tom Morris, our panel will include Etta Murfitt (Nora Chance), Gareth Snook (Dora Chance), Omari Douglas (Showgirl Nora) and Melissa James (plays Showgirl Dora), Vicki Mortimer (Set and Costume Design) and Susannah Clapp (Author of 'A Card from Angela Carter' and Theatre Critic for The Observer).
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Photography: Steve Tanner
