The Wild Party
Author(s):
Music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa, book by Michael John LaChiusa and George C Wolfe, based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March
Company:
DeeHampton Productions Ltd
Age recommendation:
14+ years
Queenie, a vaudeville chorine, hosts the blow-out of the title with her vicious lover. The guests are a vivid collection of the unruly and the undone.
The jazz and gin-soaked party rages to a mounting sense of threat as artifice and illusion are stripped away.
When midnight debauchery leads to tragedy at dawn, the high-flying characters land with a sobering thud, reminding us that no party lasts forever.