Performance

VenueHome Theatre
TownManchester
CountyGreater Manchester
From14th October 2017
To15th October 2017
WhenSat 19:00. Sun 17:00
What is currently on at Home Theatre (V1858052535)

How to Win Against History

T287461533
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:T287461533, play:S050880353, venue:V1858052535

Production details

Part of the Orbit Festival

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Company

Producer Seiriol Davies
Producer Aine Flanagan Productions
Producer Young Vic
Director Alex Swift
Design Verity Quinn
Lighting Dan Saggars
Musical Director Dylan Townley
DramaturgEve Leigh
Performer Matthew Blake
Performer Seiriol Davies
Performer Dylan Townley
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