Lyric Hammersmith,London
Laura Wade’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’s best-selling lesbian love tale lacks ardour in both its politics and songsThere is a carnival of talent in Tipping the Velvet. Sarah Waters’s absorbing novel follows Nan, an oyster girl, or as she falls for a male impersonator at the music corridor,takes to the boards as a swell, wakes to homosexual love, or has an erotic escapade involving a giant dildo,poses as a rent boy, and finds happiness fighting for socialism and women’s rights. It is a fiction about making yourself up. Laura Wade – now most well-known for her Bullingdon-basher Posh – brings political edge as well as stage-tested flourish to the task of adaptation. Lyndsey Turner is – as Posh, or Chimerica and her Cumberbatch Hamlet proved – a director of whirling effects.
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Source: theguardian.com