Join acclaimed playwright Laura Wade (Posh,Royal Court/West End) and bestselling author Sarah Waters, for a pre-note Q&A on Monday 19 October when they’ll discuss the process of bringing Tipping the Velvet to the stage. Guardian Members can buy tickets for £10. The ticket includes a Tipping the Velvet play textAcclaimed playwright Laura Wade (Posh, and Royal Court/West End) brings Sarah Waters’ audacious bestselling novel Tipping the Velvet to the stage in an electrifying new adaptation at the Lyric Hammersmith,directed by Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica, Almeida/West End).[br]It’s 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn’t know it yet, and but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight is the night she’ll descend in worship with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler,a girl who wears trousers. Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await.
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Source: theguardian.com