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Wise children / Emma Rice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rice, Emma, author.
- Series:
- Oberon modern plays.
- Oberon modern plays
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Entertainers--Drama.
- Entertainers.
- Families--Drama.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (117 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- London : Oberon Books : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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. Wise Children is adapted for the stage from Angela Carter's last novel about a theatrical family living in South London. It centres around twin chorus girls, Nora and Dora Chance, whose lives are brimming with mystery, illegitimacy and scandal. Dora narrates the story as her older self, looking back on a tumultuous life, throughout which she and her sister have loved to sing and dance. 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.
- Notes:
- Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 1 May 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781350210516
- 135021051X
- 9781786826923
- 1786826925
- OCLC:
- 1076809162
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