Gin Craze!

Gin Craze!

Book & Lyrics by April de Angelis
Music & Lyrics by Lucy Rivers

Two lovers, each with hidden secrets, struggle to prosper as gin hawkers. At a time in the 18th century when the average Briton drank 1.5 litres of gin every day, women were being locked up in cells to sober up and disorder was breaking out on every street corner, panic spreads among the upper classes who look to the magistrates, the Church and even their tipsy Queen to restore sobriety.

This raucous satire invites you down to the gin dive! Come on a journey through the joyous excesses of Hogarth’s Britain in this anarchic, ingenious and irreverent new musical.

‘…a bawdy feminist history lesson with anarchic spirit’ – The Guardian

‘…it’s joyful and dark, scholarly and fantastical,  finally rather serious but often very funny and breathtakingly rude’ – Libby Purves / Theatre Cat 

Featured in both The Guardian and Beyond the Curtain’s Best Theatre of 2021, as well as Whats On Stage’s shows they want to see return to the stage in 2022.

In partnership with English Touring Theatre.

April de Angelis, Lucy Rivers and Michael Oakley were resident artists of the Orchard Project.

Supported by the Garrick Charitable Trust.

Image © Ellie Kurttz