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Emma Rice: Wise Children at The Old Vic

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Time 20:30
Date 08/10/18
Price £12

A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope.

Running from: Mon 08 Oct - Sat 10 Nov, 7:30. Sat & Wed matinees, 14:30.

'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 70th 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…

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 and its London residency at The Old Vic.

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COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of tickets to attend Emma Rice: Wise Children at The Old Vic at 19:30 on Friday 12 October. To enter the competition, send an email to vienna@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ line. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: In what year was Angela Carter's novel, Wise Children written?
A: .1) 1691 .2) 1791 .3) 1891 .4) 1991

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