A Night in Fitzrovia
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Description
If you thought Soho was outlandish…meet its outrageous nextdoor neighbour.
For decades, Fitzrovia (just north of Oxford Street), was famed for its Bohemian inhabitants and outlandish goings-on. On March 27, we’ll be celebrating some of its greatest characters and the work they produced.
'A Night in Fitzrovia' mixes live music with readings and anecdotes covering the Bohemian adventures of Augustus John, Ottoline Morrell and Nina Hamnett; the radicalism of Shelley and Tom Paine; sexuality (Marie Stopes); outrage (Verlaine and Rimbaud); high culture (Virginia Woolf); low humour (Tommy Cooper and Round the Horne); the social realism of Daniel Defoe and Henry Mayhew; the esoteric outpourings of Aleister Crowley and L Ron Hubbard and much more besides.
Welcome to our Bohemian rhapsody.