Captain Murderer and the Morecombe Mermaid

Date: Saturday 21st April
From: 19:30
Category: Theatre
Description:

‘Captain Murderer and the Morecambe Mermaid’ is a pitch-black musical comedy, created by long-time collaborators John Barber and Lisa Howard, aka Captain Mermaid Theatre Company, in association with The Dukes, Lancaster, with original songs by John Newman-Holden, supported by the Arts Council of England.

This new play presents a collision of Maritime myth with a little-known shocker by Charles Dickens, and explores the real, hard lives of performing ‘Freaks’. After many lurid adventures, a washed-up mermaid ends up in a washed-up side-show, the last resort of a drink-addled Clown and little Tanya, his foul-mouthed daughter.

Captain Murderer and the Morecambe Mermaid is a sinister visual feast, a fast-moving parade of puppets and masks, illusions and projections, Burlesque queens and Freak Show geeks.

It’s disturbing escapism, and you’ve never seen the like...
Come and See the Freaks! All Live! They Defy Science!

Tickets £8 / £5 Suitable for ages 14+

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