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Oyster girl Nancy Astley meets male impersonator Kitty Butler and her fate is sealed. She falls in love, joins her music hall act and takes an exhilarating journey to the high & low-life of Victorian London.
Tipping the Velvet conjures up an intoxicating world of ‘grease-paint, wood and spilling beer, of gas and tobacco and hair-oil combined … the essence not of pleasure but of grief.’ From West End renter to East End ‘tom’, Nancy’s rites-of-passage tale comes richly to life in the first ever stage version of Sarah Water’s joyous novel.
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ADAPTED BY AMANDA WHITTINGTON FROM THE NOVEL BY SARAH WATERS.
Showcased by Guildhall School of Music and Drama. October 2009.
Director: Katharine Rogers
Designer: Tom Rogers
Lighting: Johanna Town
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