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The Vegan Tigress – Mary De Morgan and her fairy tales

  • Start date: 18th Feb 2025
  • End date: 1st Mar 2025
  • Bread & Roses Theatre, Clapham, London SW4 6DZ
  • Organiser: LynchPin Theatre
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Celebrating the fairy tales of Mary De Morgan on stage
A new play, produced in Mary De Morgan’s 175th anniversary year, will celebrate her life and storytelling. It is inspired by her extraordinary fairy tales, which subverted the conventions of Victorian society with its themes of proto-feminism and surreal imagery. ‘The Vegan Tigress’ imagines De Morgan accidentally summoning a ghost. The spirit is the formidable mother of a lover Mary spurned many years before. The opposing worlds of free spirits and tightly-laced corsets collide as De Morgan is forced to re-evaluate her life on the eve of a life-changing journey. The play is a celebration of the art and craft of storytelling, and one of De Morgan’s fantastical tales is woven into the drama. Playwright Claire Parker wittily shines a light on Mary De Morgan and her sublime, subversive stories.