Synopsis
Tipping the Velvet
$14.99 Published by Oberon
Large Mixed Cast
She doesn't know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life
Tonight is the night she'll fall in love
... with the thrill of the stage
... and with Kitty Butler
A girl who wears trousers
Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London
Where unimaginable adventures await ...
CAST
M4,F6 (doubling)
REVIEWS
" ... amazing (the heroine) begins her story soaked in brine and ends it soaked in sex" ~ Salon
"With a title that's a euphemism for cunnilingus and a plot awash with graphic lesbian sex, this lush tale fearlessly and feverishly exposes the political, social and sexual subversions of Victorian-era gender-benders - sapphists, libertines and passing women
Set in 1890s London against a backdrop of music halls and socialist demonstrations, Tipping the Velvet is an engrossing story of a "tommish" woman battered and buoyed by the mores of the times
The circumstances by which Nancy finally finds true love are unpredictable and moving
Amid the gentlemen trolling Piccadilly Circus for trysts with "renter" boys and the wealthy female guests of the Cavendish Clubs "Sapphists Only" parties, Nancy's search for love and identity is a raucous, passionate adventure" ~ Publisher's Weekly