It's 1899 and all of Europe is agape at the arrival of the new century! The world crackles with possibilities - and its people dance to the irresistible rhythms of money, sex, love and freedom. Swinging above them all is a showbiz sensation; a fierce, vulgar, pant-droppingly sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers. The story charts her unlikely love affair with Walser, a world-weary journalist on a mission to expose her as a fake. 'Nights at the Circus' opens at the Lyric Hammersmith in January 2006. Emma Rice, acclaimed Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre ('Tristan & Yseult', 'The Bacchae') directs Angela Carter's great mythic novel. With rising star Natalia Tena as Fevvers ('About a Boy', 'Mrs Henderson Presents' and 'Shared Experience's Bronte' & 'Gone to Earth') and Gisli Orn Gardarsson as Walser ('Young Vic's Romeo & Juliet and Woyzeck').