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Deliciously dark and strangely beautiful, this charming theatre cabaret takes audiences on a delightfully surreal journey through enchanting, skewed and sometimes sinister landscapes.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is the multi award-winning production which cleverly combines stunning films and animation with live music, performance and storytelling. Using the aesthetic of silent film, a series of comic tales unfold in which performers interact seamlessly with multi-media to create a shadowy, but hilariously funny world.
Hapless cats, gun-toting gingerbread men and sinister twins all make an appearance in this impeccably charming creation. Winner of five awards during its premiere season, including a clean sweep of the top awards at Edinburgh Fringe, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea has achieved phenomenal success on tours to New York, Singapore and Australia. This wholly original and hugely enjoyable vaudevillian comedy is sure to be the talk of the Pacific Blue Festival Club.
"Emily the Strange meets Charlie Chaplin meets Oscar Wilde meets Nick Cave...See it!"
Directed and Written by: Suzanne Andrade
Film, Animation and Design: Paul Barritt
Music: Lillian Henley
Costume: Esme Appleton
Image: 1927
WITH SUPPORT FROM MASTERTON TRUST LANDS TRUST, MASTERTON CITY COUNCIL AND KAPITI COAST DISTRICT COUNCIL
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Review
www.nzherald.co.nz Mar 8, 2010
Imagine if you will a pair of precociously talented and tight, well-to-do young twin girls, endlessly role-playing and storytelling aloud in their bedroom, with the aid of little more than a few white sheets and pencils. Dressed sinisterly in identical black pinafore dresses, as they try to out spook and out weird each other their games get more hysterical and darker.
The Dominion Post Mar 8, 2010
In previous international festivals it's been the tent on the waterfront that's held wacky off-the-wall cabaret shows.
www.scoop.co.nz Mar 7, 2010
Mixing live music and action with film and animation Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea explores some dark places in ways that echo Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter and that mad surrealist movie by Buñuel and Dali. Only much funnier.
Buzz online: South Wales Culture Jan 4, 2010
While everybody else went to see Les Miserables, in the smaller Weston Studio just down the hall Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea was unfolding to a bewitched audience.
The Guardian (UK) Jan 1, 2010
Between The Devil And the Deep Blue Sea: ... a delivishly good piece of work from a young company you had never heard of before.
