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'ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST
FASCINATING THEATRE PRACTITIONERS'

'ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST
FASCINATING THEATRE PRACTITIONERS'

BRITISH THEATRE
THE FLEA
4 FEB - 8 MAR 2025
A RADICALLY SURREAL
RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE INFAMOUS CLEVELAND STREET SCANDAL

London, 1889. Charlie Swinscow, a young post boy, gets busted with 14 shillings in his pocket.
But the twist is that he didn’t steal it. The cash was payment for his body, sold to a wealthy aristocrat at a secret gay brothel with ties to the Royal Family.
What starts as a petty arrest spirals into something much bigger. Charlie and his mother get caught in the middle of a national scandal that shakes the very foundations of the British Empire.
This true story is a wild, unfiltered, unpredictable trip through power, deception and disgrace.
Nothing is as it seems and everything feels like a fever dream.
















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