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Shockheaded Peter
April 4, 2015 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
$25Event Navigation
Join us for this rock musical adaptation of Heinrich Hoffman’s popular German book for children!
Fall into the world of Victorian SteamCRUNK nightmares as a manic music-box spins stories of naughty children and misguided parents. Silly and sinister, Shockheaded Peter, with the musical mayhem of Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys, dares us to ask what’s beneath the floorboards. Don’t miss this most damning tale ever told on stage.
A New England Premiere created for the stage by Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott
original music and lyrics by The Tiger Lillies
originally conceived and produced by Michael Morris for Cultural Industry, London
directed by Steven Bogart
featuring Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys
Presented by Company One and Suffolk University
Student tickets only $15!
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.