The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington – Premiere

Tangent Theatre Company in association with the Wallace Collection presents a new play by Martyn Wade

Jilly Bond reprises her role as Lady Blessington from Chrome Audio’s ‘hugely entertaining’ (The Guardian) A Journey through France and A Journey through Italy.

Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of the famous society beauty hangs in the Front State Room at the Wallace Collection.  But who was Lady Blessington? A 19^th century newshound follows her trail from Tipperary to Manchester Square revealing the story of the woman behind the portrait.  The beautiful daughter of a poor Irish landowner becomes a renowned society hostess, attracting the leading literary and society figures of the day to her salon – Dickens, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli – until scandal and financial ruin threatens.

Starring Jilly Bond and Oliver Senton with live music by Mary O’Connor

Directed by Ed Viney

Friday 12 October 2012
at 7.30 pm

The Great Gallery
The Wallace Collection

Tickets £35 from
Tangent Theatre Company

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