Wise Children
by Angela Carter

Wise Children Book Cover
Wise Children Cover

Synopsis

A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope, adapted by Emma Rice from the novel by Angela Carter.'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 and its London residency at The Old Vic.

Publication

Publisher
Oberon
Year Published
2018
ISBN 10
1786826917
ISBN 13
9781786826916
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Print Length
120 pages
Language
English
Print
Wise Children is a British adaptation play written by and published by Oberon in 2018. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781786826916 and an ISBN-10 of 1786826917.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle.

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