VEGA$M @ the Riverside

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BRAND X / GAWKAGOGO
present a new comedy show
VEGA$M

25 OCTOBER - 13 NOVEMBER
Tuesday – Saturday AT 8pm (No Monday performances)
SUNDAYS at 6pm
LATE SHOWS AT 9.45PM ON SATURDAY 5 & 12 NOV
TiCKETS £14 (£9 CONCESSIONS)
EARLY BIRD OFFER - £7.50 when booked by 15 Sep (applies to 25-28 Oct shows)
CHEAP TUESDAYS & LATE SHOWS– first 30 tickets £5, maximum 5 per booking

 

Las Vegas: the Great American Freakshow! 2005 is Sin City's 100th birthday, and what better way to celebrate than with the ultimate twisted tribute tothe Las Vegas showlounge.

VEGA$M is the new comedy/variety show from the creators of 'DIE' (thecritically-acclaimed sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2003/ Riverside Studios 2004satire set in a Disnified corporate hell). Fresh from Robin Ince's BOOK CLUB designer/director Paul Garner and designer/writer Sarah Nield return with their trademark cartoon-style blend of 2 and 3D puppetry, caricature masks,

ingenious quick-change costumes and three 'human' performers, for a dark
Toontown take on the capital of excess.

You are invited to enter the sleazeball casino lounge resort paradise of
VEGA$M's hosts: FELONY FATALE, STACK SALAMAMBA and 'kids' entertainer'
HOOTERS THE CLOWN as they oversee a grotesque, Lynchian variety bill of dark
character comedy, cabaret, music, magic, mind control and warped audience
participation casino games, in a grisly cartoon underworld where Spitting
Image meets Blue Velvet.

Featuring strip-ripping jackpot star turns from Brand X/Gawkagogo classic
characters and an all-new cavalcade of bizarre comic-book Vegas headliners,
including FRANKENSTINATRA and the all-dead 'ROT PACK', camp keyboard-cyborg
LIBERARNIE, psychotic evillusionist DENNIS HOPPERFIELD, stand-up insectoid
genetic hybrid THE HOUSE FLY, Derren-Brown-wouldn't-be MENTALO MASTER OF
MENTALISM and heart-warming NORMA GUNTZ and her TOM JONES CELEBRITY TUMOUR,
climaxing in the ultimate interactive ELEPHANT MAN ELVIS Vegas freakshow
wedding finale!

 

September 4, 2005