Nun the Wiser at The Cauldron

Dreamgirls meets Sister Act, meets Mean Girls all set in an 18th-century convent.Nun the Wiser is an irreverent new musical from the mind of Kat Carson. It is a satirical look at an imagined past where Italian nuns sing gospel music and dream of fame. It focusses on the lives of seven musical nuns. On the surface, they appear devout and ordinary, but beneath that exterior lies a world of interpersonal relationships, conflicts, love, and repressed emotion. Within the convent, the only permitted form of artistic expression is composing and performing religious music.Their lives are thrown into turmoil when the famous composer Antonio Vivaldi comes to hear their compositions. As a man, he has the power to change their lives and introduce their music to the outside world. The nuns ask Mr. Vivaldi to review their own works, but what will he make of their explicit writings about love and desire?Nun the Wiser is a show about nuns, but it's also a show about queer joy, queer love, and women's rights to be heard in a society that often wants them hidden away in a cloister. It is a show about nuns who write their own music, tell their own stories and are openly and unashamedly themselves. Inspired by true stories of musical convents and nuns who fought to be heard, this show is set in 18th century Italy, and features a cameo appearance by the famous musician Antonio Vivaldi.