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Oyster girl Nancy Astley meets male impersonator Kitty Butler: falls in love, joins her music hall act and takes an exhilarating journey to the high and low-life of Victorian London. Tipping the Velvet conjures 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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Showcased by Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
October 2009.
Director: Kath Rogers
Designer: Tom Rogers
Lighting: Johanna Town
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