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THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEPP

13th Jul 2010 - 25th Jul 2010

In keeping with our wish to experiment with different genre’s of theatre this year, We have a short season of the fabulous “Penny Dreadful” campy melodrama tribute to Gothic horror films, The Mystery of Irma Vep directed and designed by Greg King,and staged by Durban’s KickstArt Company.

Synopsis:

The show enjoyed two successful seasons in 2007 at the Seabrookes Theatre and at the Hilton Arts Festival, and returns due to popular demand.

Two actors (Michael Gritten and Steven Stead) play all of the play's eight characters, racing through a literal quick-change marathon complete with werewolves, vampires and damsels in distress. Combine all that with crazy plot twists (two characters travel from England to Egypt to inspect a mummy), and shamelessly borrows from well-known movie classics like Wuthering Heights, The Mummy's Curse and Alfred Hitchcock's Academy Award-winning Rebecca. Literary detectives will also recognize dialogue lifted from Ibsen, Shakespeare, Poe, the Brontë sisters, Omar Khayyam, and Oscar Wilde.

Cast: Michael Gritten and Steven Stead

 

 

 

 

 

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