Shockheaded Peter
6 - 9 Oct
By The Tiger Lillies, Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott
Music by Martyn Jacques
Performing Rights S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Director Lucy Betts
Musical Director Alice Brown
Movement Director Ruth Naylor-Smith
Set & Costume Designer Sorcha Corcoran
Lighting Designer Billy Highfield
Sound Designer Ollie Brennan
“And the sloven, I declare,
Never once has combed his hair!
Anything to me is sweeter
Than to see Shock-headed Peter.“
Step into a delightfully twisted world of nightmares where cautionary tales of naughty children abound in a macabre musical inspired by Heinrich Hoffmann’s 19th-century German children’s book Struwwelpeter. This Olivier Award-winning production weaves together stories of wild-haired Peter and wayward youngsters who face their gruesome fates in this darkly comic spectacle.
With music by The Tiger Lillies and performed by our Actor Musicianship students, this theatrical terror doesn’t just bite, it swallows the audience whole and might even teach you some Victorian moral lessons.
Show age restrictions: 12+
This production features violence, self harm, blood, gun shot sound effect, murder of children and unsettling images.
