Wise Children

<p>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...<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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 <em>Wise Children</em> 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.</p>