A Royal & Derngate, Northampton and China Plate co-production
Run time: Approx 2 hours 30 minutes (including interval)
Age: 16+
Content warnings: Contains strong language.
The Times
The Telegraph
The Guardian
"raucous fun with a dark chaser ★★★★★ "
The Observer
Book & Lyrics by April de Angelis
Music & Lyrics by Lucy Rivers
Two lovers, each with hidden secrets, struggle to prosper as gin hawkers. At a time in the 18th century when the average Briton drank 1.5 litres of gin every day, women were being locked up in cells to sober up and disorder was breaking out on every street corner, panic spreads among the upper classes who look to the magistrates, the Church and even their tipsy Queen to restore sobriety.
This raucous satire invites you down to the gin dive! Come on a journey through the joyous excesses of Hogarth’s Britain in this anarchic, ingenious and irreverent new musical.
‘…a bawdy feminist history lesson with anarchic spirit’ – The Guardian
‘…it’s joyful and dark, scholarly and fantastical,  finally rather serious but often very funny and breathtakingly rude’ – Libby Purves / Theatre CatÂ
Featured in both The Guardian and Beyond the Curtain’s Best Theatre of 2021, as well as Whats On Stage’s shows they want to see return to the stage in 2022.
In partnership with English Touring Theatre.
April de Angelis, Lucy Rivers and Michael Oakley were resident artists of the Orchard Project.
Supported by the Garrick Charitable Trust.
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