Wise Children

Lets have all the skeletons out of the closet today of all days!Its 23 April Shakespeares 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 hes still alive. And if in truth Melchior is their real father after allA 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 Carters great last novel Wise Children launching her new theatre company of the same name and its London residency at The Old Vic.