Cult cabaret duo and leading lights of the UK’s alternative performance scene Bourgeois & Maurice, otherwise known as George Heyworth and Liv Morris, continue HOME’s spring 2020 theatre season with the world premiere production of Insane Animals, which runs Friday 28 February – Saturday 14 March 2020.
The show features a cast of eight high-energy low-brow actor-musician misfits under the direction of Philip McMahon, who has just been named as Creative Director for Ireland’s entry in the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, to be staged in Rotterdam in May.
Insane Animals is an outrageous larger-than-life time-travelling musical comedy in which two hyper-glam aliens arrive from a faraway galaxy to rescue present-
day earth from impending political, environmental, and social doom. This ‘epic joyride from the dawn of civilisation to the sequinned near future’ sees Bourgeois & Maurice on hand to help the human race live forever!
Known for their glamorous and satirical double act, Bourgeois & Maurice are writing for the first time for a large cast, tackling bigger themes, and with a full band. It also marks their first time to actually rehearse a show!
This queer unravelling of past and present, fact and fiction, life and death, is directed by Philip McMahon, co-director of one of Ireland’s most exciting theatre companies, Thisispopbaby whose shows over the past 13 years – including Panti Bliss’s High Heels in Low Places which played at HOME in 2017 – have played to over 250,000 people all over the world.
Musical Director is composer, performer and multi-instrumentalist Victoria Falconer, who was recently nominated for Best Musical Director in the prestigious Sydney Theatre Awards for her work on hit musical Once, and is also part of the ensemble and band. The eight-strong cast is completed by Australian actor and multi-platinum selling recording artist Lockie Chapman, who during his time with The Overtones sold more than one million albums.
TICKETS £15-£29 (concessions £13-£27)
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