MARKET BOSWORTH: Dixie Grammar School

Thursday 22nd June, 2023

7:00pm

Event information

Do The Write Thing presents: Nelly

In Restoration England, Nell Gwynne became the most famous woman alive.
Our play which might have been sub-titled “Carry On Up the Restoration!” tries to show you why.
Funny. Sad. Belting songs.
Theatre is all about storytelling. Folk music is all about storytelling. And Nell Gwynne – what a story. Born into poverty (her mum ran a brothel and her dad died in a debtors’ gaol) the young Nelly was a cinder girl, a fish hawker, an orange seller but became the leading comedy actress of her day.
She is perhaps best known to history as the mistress of Charles II. But is really known to us because she was funny. Samuel Pepys called her “pretty witty Nell”. Playwrights, poets and politicians – the sharpest minds courted her and were part of her “merry gang”.
We’ve songs written by Jo Freya, Robb Johnson, Reg Meuross, Lucy Ward, Boff Whalley and Dave Wilson (Winter Wilson).
And 350 years on, what’s changed? A plague. A corrupt government. A dodgy duke of York.
Ahem.

A bar is planned
Strictly no admission on the door - tickets from this site only.
Market Bosworth Society members go free.

Station Road
Market Bosworth
Nuneaton
Warwickshire
CV13 0LE

www.bosworthfestival.co.uk