Performance

VenueOvalhouse
Other spaces: Theatre Upstairs, Theatre Downstairs
TownInner London
CountyGreater London
From21st July 2016
To23rd July 2016
When19:30
What is currently on at Ovalhouse (V239)

How to Win Against History

How to Win Against HistoryT02044534267
Based on the charred remains of a true story. The 5th Marquis of Anglesey was one of the wealthiest men who ever lived. He burned brightly, briefly and transvestitely at the end of the 19th Century, blowing his family's colossal fortune on diamond frocks, lilac-dyed poodles, putting on amazing plays to which nobody came, touring Germany performing the inexplicable "Famous Electric Butterfly Dance", and generally desperately trying to make himself a legend. After he died at 29, his family, in vengeance, burned every proof they could find that he existed, and carried on as though he never was. How to Win Against History is a hilarious, ripped-up musical about expectations, manliness, disappointment and being totally fabulous: Hedwig and the Angry Inch meets Noises Off in a ballgown. A frothy, glossy costume drama about the stories we tell to convince ourselves it's all going well, and the moments we realise it's not.
Book by Seiriol Davies
Music Seiriol Davies
Lyrics Seiriol Davies


Archive :: production:T02044534267, play:S050880353, venue:V239

Production details

Downstairs

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Company

Producer Seiriol Davies
Producer Aine Flanagan Productions
Producer Pontio Bangor
Director Alex Swift
DramaturgEve Leigh
Performer Matthew Blake
Performer Tom Penn
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