Tipping The Velvet
8 - 11 Jul
Director Kate Budgen
Set & Costume Designer Nicolai Hart-Hansen
Lighting Designer Alex Musgrave
Sound Designer Nicola T. Chang
Movement & Intimacy Director Christina Fulcher
“This is your coming-out suit. You needn’t say anything – in fact, don’t – the spectacle will do it all. I’m taking you to my club.”
In 1887, Nan Astley sits in the audience; she doesn’t know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tipping The Velvet is a coming-of-age love story exploring desire, sex, class and identity in the queer subcultures hidden beneath the soot and grime of Victorian London.
Tipping the Velvet is performed by our MA Performance – Acting cohort.
Age guidance: 18+
Duration: 3 hours (incl 20-min interval)
This production features strobe lighting, scenes of a sexual nature, violence, threat, loud noises/loud music, strong language, mentions and depictions of BDSM, depictions of sexual harassment, innuendo.
An amateur production by arrangement with Knight Hall Agency Ltd. Photography and filming of this production is strictly prohibited.