In An Evening with Lola Montez, the famed dancer who brought down Bavaria’s king in 1848 tells her own picaresque tale of celebrity, tragedy, beauty and reinvention.

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The play is set late in Lola’s career, when she could no longer keep up the arduous grind of dancing and action on stages across the globe. 

Though Lola's body failed her, she had one last card to play to find the spotlight: she wrote and delivered lectures to enraptured audiences eager to hear tales plucked from backstage and boudoirs – as well as her own reflections on love and beauty.

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Set at one of these public talks in the late 1850s, An Evening with Lola Montez is a one-woman show that offers sharp and poignant reflections on notoriety and fateful encounters from an unforgettable figure of the 19th Century.