Tickets: $20 full, $15 concession, $10 age 15 and under
Time: 8pm - 10pm
Two cowering musicians pound out an unknown funeral march, marking the beginning of one of the most surprising and spectacularly imaginative pieces of theatre since the Rocky Horror Show.
Renowned for their sudden-death club skits as The Surgical Sideshow, two of the Sydney underground’s strangest have concocted something big.
They call it The Surgical Sideshow Epic.
Put simply, the play is about two ambitious surgeons and their “excommunication” from the “Hallowed Halls of Medicine”. Their subsequent journey in search of ultimate revenge upon everything is spring-loaded with unexpected detours and layers of complexity.
The leads are two mute skeleton creatures supported by a singing devil, a mad pope, sinister robots and some demented hand puppets. They harrow and are harried by an ubiquitous female lead who, with the aforementioned musicians and a couple of Brechtian help-mates, represents the all-too-human component of the show.
The production has a unique and intense style composed of a strong visual sense inspired by silent movies and classic cartoons, complemented by dense soundscapes and outbursts from the musicians.
Despite the frequently dark material, the audience is often in (sometimes horrified) hysterics, save the regular gangs of small children who sit in quiet amazement throughout.
