22 February 2025

Vanity Fair Performance in the Library Garden

This year we welcome back Moving Parts Theatre company with 4 performances of a new family-friendly open-air production in our lovely gardens.

• Thursday 26^th June at 7pm
  
• Friday 27^th June at 7pm, 
  
• Saturday 5^th July Matinee at 2pm
  
• Saturday 5th July at 6pm.
  

Early Bird offer - book by 6th April for a 10% discount -  see below for details

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. 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.

Bring a rug and your own picnic.  Food and wine will be available to buy before the show and during the interval.   There will be chairs available for older members of the audience. The site is wheelchair accessible.

Early Bird Booking: 

Use the early bird discount code CAROUSEL10 which gives a 10% discount on tickets bought by 6^th April 2025.

Full price £25, concessions £20, family ticket for 2 adults & 2 children £78.

Click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1276560078559?aff=oddtdtcreator

This is part of the Hampstead Summer Festival and a portion of tickets sales is donated to Hampstead School of Art and Keats Community Library.