VANITY FAIR
June 2025
26th Thursday @7pm
27th Friday @7pm
July 2025
5th Saturday @ 2 pm and @ 6 pm
A family-friendly open-air production by professional touring theatre group The Moving Parts Theatre Company.
This summer, we invite you to the shores of Sicily for the intrigue, drama, wit and wisdom of VANITY FAIR.
Welcome to the whirligig of VANITY FAIR – a giddy carousel of social climbers, buffoons and preening dandies. In a world of gossip and speculation, where scandal and celebrity can turn on a sixpence, we follow the twisting fortunes of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.
All is to play for and the stakes are perilously high - for romantic Amelia, consumed with her obsessive love and Becky, an irrepressible schemer who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Moving Parts Theatre Company take a fresh and inventive approach to the classics. From the company that brought you Macbeth in 2023 and Much ado about nothing in 2024, you’ll know to expect an exciting and inventive approach to telling this wonderful story, which keeps both comedy and drama firmly at its heart.
This brand new adaptation of Thackeray’s rarely performed tale of greed, ambition, love and betrayal will transport audiences from Regency salons and ballrooms to the battlefield of Waterloo!
With a dazzling score of original music by composer Tamara Douglas-Morris and bold, inventive movement devised by Offie-nominated Nevana Stojkov, don’t miss this exciting new adaptation created by the company’s trio, Joanna Nevin, Martin South and Simona Hughes.
Refreshments will be available before the performance and during the interval.
A perfect way to spend a summer afternoon or evening.
Tickets
£25
£20 concessions (under 18, students and over 65)
£78 family ticket (2 adults & 2 children)
Book tickets here
Early bird discount code is CAROUSEL10 which gives a 10% discount on tickets bought by 6th April 2025.
[NB: Some of the ticket cost goes to supporting the actors after a hard year, and a proportion goes to the two beneficiary charities of the Hampstead Summer Festival].
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