“What’s the odds so long as you’re happy?” — Ernest Boulton, 1869

Alone on the darkened stage of an old music hall, a man reflects on an extraordinary life as he awaits a very ordinary death.

Inspired by the scandalous true story of Ernest Boulton – the infamous Victorian cross-dresser – this original production from one of Britain’s most individual theatre-makers is a highly personal meditation on the fine art of living dangerously.

Neil Bartlett is one of his generation's most respected and innovative theatre directors. His highly individual translations of French and German classical theatre, and characteristically theatrical adaptations of Dickens, most of them originated while he was Artistic Director of the Lyric
Hammersmith in London, have been played around the world. His plays have premiered at the Royal Court, at the Manchester International Festival and at the National Theatre in London.