BFF & DFF Presents: Women On Screen

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‘Let’s have all the skeletons out of the closet, today, of all days!’
It’s 23 April, Shakespeare’s birthday.

In Brixton, Nora (Omari Douglas, It's A Sin) and Dora (Melissa James, The Bodyguard: The Musical) Chance – twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river – are celebrating their 70th 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…

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.

Emma Rice (Romantics Anonymous; Tristan & Yseult) brings her unique, exuberantly impish vision to Angela Carter’s great last novel, Wise Children, launching her new theatre company of the same name

Post show - join us for a lively discussion with screenwriter Lisa Holdworth around women's voice and representation on and off camera.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE ON ZOOM. BY BUYING A TICKET HERE YOU WILL BE SENT A LINK ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SHOW STARTS WITH THE LINK TO WATCH THE FILM AND A LINK TO JOIN THE ZOOM DISCUSSION VIA EMAIL FROM BRADFORD FRINGE FESTIVAL

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