Novelist Angela Carter’s Wise Children is being brought to the Storyhouse stage in Chester next spring in a new theatrical production by director Emma Rice.
The carnivalesque tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families is packed with pairs of twins and mistaken identities and was inspired by the Bard’s greatest comedies
A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children—adapted and directed by Rice—is a celebration of showbusiness, family, forgiveness and hope. Expect showgirls and Shakespeare, sex and scandal, music, mischief and mistaken identity… and butterflies by the thousand.
It’s being staged at Storyhouse from March 19 to 23.