Creepy Boys
Date: Thursday 31st October & Friday 1st November 2024
Time: 7.15pm - 8.45pm
Members’ Price
Early Bird: £10
Standard: £11.20
You're invited! Twin orphans, The Creepy Boys, are throwing their 13th birthday party. It will have everything. Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably Cake. Combining 2000s sexy songs, satanic rituals, and Willam Dafoe, these creepy little boys do whatever it takes to make their birthday dreams come true.
This is one birthday party you’d be cursed to miss.
The twins recruit the audience to help them set up their party, with all the deference and direct eye contact you’d expect from attending a twin-teen birthday blast, before driving the show off a horror-comedy cliff - think the twins from The Shining meets My Super Sweet 16.
Through sexy dances, party games and reenacting their own birth, the Creepy Boys ramp up the chaos to the point of a blood sacrifice, all while interrogating the trappings of millennial nostalgia. From real-life-lovers-turned-identical-twins, Sam Kruger (Winner - Just for Laughs Comedy Award 2019) and S.E. Grummett (Winner - Best Theatre, Adelaide Fringe 2021) comes a bizarre comedy with just a splash of the occult.
Awards & Reviews
“★★★★★ Blisteringly anarchic and devilishly clever”
“★★★★★ Such a night to remember”
“★★★★ A show that defies summary”
“★★★★★ A brilliant piece of theatre”
“★★★★ Wonderfully manic”
Winner of the Lustrum Award for Unforgettable Show - Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe 2023
Nominated for the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence
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About the Artists
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S.E. Grummett (they/them) is a queer, transgender theatre artist from Treaty 6 Territory. Over the past 5 years, Grumms has created a body of original queer work and toured it around the world, including Canada, US, UK, Europe and Australia. They are the co-creator of “SCUM: a manifesto”, “Girl in the Box”, “Pack Animals” and “Creepy Boys”. Their solo-show, “Something in the Water", has toured around the world to queer audiences young and old. Next up: “The Adventures of Young Turtle”, a puppet musical for queer and trans youth created by S.E. Grummett and indie music icon, Rae Spoon, premieres at Persephone Theatre in early 2025. Grumms is the recipient of the 2022 RBC Outstanding Award in recognition for their contribution to the queer and trans community across Saskatchewan. Outside of self-creation, Grumms also works as a director, puppeteer & video artist.
Website: http://sogladarts.ca
Instagram: @thecreepyboys @sogladarts
Twitter: @sogladarts
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Sam Kruger (he/him) is a performer, sound designer, and recent immigrant to Canada. His solo works "Fool Muun Komming!", "Bat Brains or (let’s explore mental illness with vampires)", and duo comedy Creepy Boys, have toured throughout Canada, the US, the UK, Europe, and Australia since 2018 to acclaim and various awards. Kruger’s emphasis is in the creation of original theatre that draws on Lecoq-style physical theatre, Gaulier-esqe clown, performance art, and surrealism. Often exploring themes of isolation, loneliness, and the performativity of everyday life, Kruger’s work is funny, physical, stupid, sincere, wiggly and proudly weird. He holds a BA from the University of Minnesota, and is a graduate of the Ecole Philippe Gaulier, in Étampes, France.
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So.Glad Arts an independent queer theatre company based in Canada. Founded in 2014, they strive to make work that empowers 2SLGBTQIA+ folks by telling stories often overlooked by mainstream theatre. They aim to disrupt the current processes of making theatre by creating inclusive artistic spaces for queer, transgender and other historically marginalised groups. They strive to produce new, thought-provoking theatre that promotes gender equality beyond the binary, and centre queer stories, while coming from a loving, empowering and, often silly place, believing that laughter is the best Trojan horse to educate and create change.
Through a combination of international touring, and professional productions, So.Glad Arts has become a new and exciting voice of queer theatre in Canada. Their work has been seen on a variety of different stages around the world including: Edinburgh Fringe, Prague Quadrennial, STOFF Festival (Stockholm), Twin Cities Horror Festival (USA), Adelaide Fringe, Undercurrents Festival (Canada), Blunderland Variety (Australia) and Latitude Festival (UK).
Website: http://sogladarts.ca
Instagram: @thecreepyboys @sogladarts
Twitter: @sogladarts
Facebook: @thecreepyboys @sogladarts
Event Information
Duration: 75 minutes (No interval)
Age Guidance: 16+
Specific Content: Haze, Loud noises, Sudden loud noises, Audience interaction/participation, Adult language, Sexual content, Nudity
Please e-mail us ahead of the day to ensure we are aware of and can facilitate any access needs
Latecomers will not be admitted into the performance.