Nights at the Circus

Lyric Hammersmith, Bristol Old Vic in association with Kneehigh Theatre.
Based on the novel by Angela Carter.
A new adaptation by Tom Morris and Emma Rice.

It's 1899 and all of Europe is agape at the arrival of the new century! The world crackles with possibilities - and its people dance to the irresistible rhythms of money, sex, love and freedom.

Swinging above them all is a showbiz sensation: a fierce, vulgar, pant-droppingly sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers. Why the name? She has wings. The story charts her unlikely love affair with Walser, a world-weary journalist on a mission to expose her as a fake.

‘I was so borne away with enchantment it felt more like being drugged than watching a performance'

The Sunday Telegraph

‘the show - a kind of carnival - has found visual equivalents for the richness of Carter's novel'

The Observer