Wise Children

Name: Wise Children
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781786826916
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By Emma Rice and Angela Carter

Series: Oberon Modern Plays

Summary

Wise Children follows the lives of twin chorus girls Nora and Dora Chance as they celebrate their 75th birthday in Brixton. On the same day, their potentially estranged father, renowned actor Melchior Hazard, turns 100 in Chelsea. The story, narrated by Dora in her old age, delves into secrets of illegitimacy and family scandal within a theatrical family in South London. Filled with music, mischief, showbiz glamour, and Shakespearean twists, it is a rich tale of love, forgiveness, and the enduring spirit of performance.
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This heartfelt and flamboyant narrative will appeal to readers who enjoy theatrical storytelling, family dramas, and witty explorations of British culture and show business.

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.

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.

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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.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786826916

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oberon Books Ltd

Contributors:

Adapted by Emma Rice

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 124.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 140g

Pages: 120

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Angela Carter Arts & Culture Emma Rice Non-Fiction Series: Oberon Modern Plays

About the Author

Emma Rice is the Artistic Director of theatre company, Wise Children, formed in 2018. As Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe (2016/18), she directed ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS, TWELFTH NIGHT, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and THE LITTLE MATCHGIRL (and Other Happier Tales).

For the previous 20 years, she worked for Kneehigh as an actor, director and Artistic Director. Her productions for Kneehigh include: THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK, TRISTAN & YSEULT, 946: THE AMAZING STORY OF ADOLPHUS TIPS, THE WILD BRIDE, THE RED SHOES, THE WOODEN FROCK, THE BACCHAE, CYMBELINE (in association with RSC), A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (in association with National Theatre), RAPUNZEL (in association with Battersea Arts Centre), BRIEF ENCOUNTER (in association with David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers Productions), DON JOHN (in association with the RSC and Bristol Old Vic), WAH! WAH! GIRLS (in association with Sadler’s Wells and Theatre Royal Stratford East for World Stages) and STEPTOE AND SON.

Other work includes: the West End production of THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, OEDIPUSSY (Spymonkey); THE EMPRESS (RSC); and AN AUDIENCE WITH MEOW MEOW (Berkeley Repertory Theatre).