In 1769, Monsieur Chevalier D'Eon de Beaumont, spy, diplomat, decorated Prussian war hero and international bon viveur emerged from his London apartments in female attire and spent the rest of his life as the woman she now said she always was. Proudly wearing the Chevalier d'Honneur medal on her flowing robes, she outraged and antagonised the whole of the French aristocracy, spending astronomical amounts of English Guineas and running up huge diplomatic debts fighting for her very existence and acceptance in an unforgiving world. This bizarre, true story is challenging, emotional, painfully funny and provocative; reaching deep into our perceptions of normality, acceptability and promiscuity, setting an historical thumbprint on the way we live our lives in an "enlightened" 21st Century world.
About the Author: Renny Krupinski is a British Equity Registered Fight Director, award-winning actor, writer and director. Work for theatre includes: Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The City Madam, The Shoemaker's Holiday and The Hypocrite for the RSC; Jane Eyre for the National Theatre; Crazy For You, Backbeat, Imagine This, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Making Noise Quietly and The Three Musketeers (for the Young Vic) in the West End; Shakespeare's Globe 2006-2009; Romeo and Juliet at the Rose, Kingston; The Crucible, Jungle Book, Sweeney Todd and Little Voice at West Yorkshire Playhouse; Northern Ballet 2006/2007; fights for Opera North, the Royal Exchange, Library Theatre and Home Manchester for over 20 years; plus work for Sheffield Crucible, Glasgow Citizens, Traverse Edinburgh, Oldham Coliseum, Hull Truck, Birmingham Rep, Abbey Theatre Dublin, Lyric Belfast, Liverpool Playhouse, The Curve Leicester, Ludlow Festival; and Les Misérables (also Germany and Belgium) and The Hard Man on national tour. Fights for TV: over 100 episodes of Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Coronation Street as well as Hollyoaks in the City, Hollyoaks Later, Peak Practice, Brookside, Hank Zipzer, Jamaica Inn, World's End, Lunch Monkeys, The Chase, Love Lies Bleeding, Distant Shores, The Visitor, Blue Murder 3,4,5, Grange Hill, The Bill, City Central, Elidor and A&E. Film: West is West, Greyhawk and Tyrannosaur. Acting work includes: Salieri in Amadeus for the Belgrade Coventry; Wemmick in Great Expectations (MEN Best supporting actor) and Launcelot Gobbo at Manchester Royal Exchange; Puck at Nottingham Playhouse; Banquo at Bolton Octagon; Claudius at Liverpool Shakespeare Festival; and Capulet at Oldham Coliseum. Acting for TV includes soaps, children's series, The Bill and Brookside villain, Sizzler. Writing includes Bare (Scotsman Fringe First, DarkChat best director award and The Stage best actor nomination), The Alphabet Girl (Manchester Theatre Awards Best Fringe Performance 2014, Best Female Actor national Studio Awards 2015) and Katie Crowder, Krupinski is also the voice and face of OBLIVION at Alton Towers.