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The summer she was fifteen, Melanie stole out into the moonlit garden wearing only her mother's wedding dress. She felt drunk on her imagination, caught up in yards of cool satin and the endless night sky. Surprised by her own daring, she threw off the dress and climbed up an apple tree back to the safety of her bedroom. But tragic news would shatter her romantic world. Overnight, Melanie would be cast adrift to London and the shocking truths of The Magic Toyshop. University of Oxford Student Company: Flipping the Bird, reinvents Angela Carter's classic coming-of-age tale in a production that fuses projection, physical theatre and a live string quartet. A shadowy tale of harrowing brutality and haunting beauty.

Creatives/Company

Author: Angela Carter
Company: Flipping the Bird
Adapted by: Theo Merz
Director(s): Jessica Edwards, Katie Carpenter
Design(s): Jessica Edwards, Katie Carpenter
Lighting: Alex Dickens