"I felt Dirty just sitting in the front row"
"Impressive writing, costumes, staging and intriguing and humorous surrealism"
- A YOUNGER THEATRE
"Impressive writing, costumes, staging and intriguing and humorous surrealism"
- A YOUNGER THEATRE
Creating darkly experimental, affecting, groundbreaking in-yer face performance, Splutter Theatre will sever your spine and serve it in stew.
In the dark, dank cavern of an East London flat, the light spills ever so softly through the boarded up windows. The smell of chicken blood is sharp in the air. The Sawnders family’s been this way for years. Under the iron fist of Randolphus, the eldest sibling and patriarchal rod of steel, the business is under threat. Despite rebranding the shop that was once known as “Simply Offal”, the council want them out. The last embers of their shop, “Chicken Bin” (named as such by Randolphus thinking that bin was classy… like Hardy’s Bin wine) are dying.
The health inspector is on the way, and will do anything he can to stick a throbbing government stamp all over their rotting carcasses. However, fear not, they have a few tricks up their filthy sleeves, passed down by mother, and mother always knows best.
Could this possibly be the end of the Sawnders family? Will “Chicken Bin” finally shut its doors after time immemorial? Will we ever be able to scrub the stains off our blood soaked skin?
TENANCY I: Chicken… simply offal.
Through absurdism, grotesquery and the illustrative power of chicken offal, the family’s story is told.
Splutter Theatre’s Tenancy Trilogy tells of the hidden lives behind the faded curtains of an almost invisible maisonette. These are the tragic, funny, endearing, grotesque, vile, beautiful, sordid and bright stories that occur behind closed doors.
Three writers, three slick performances, one space. The Tenancy Trilogy is sure to make you question if you can ever really know what secrets your house could hold. Be sure to check back in for instalments II (Caine) and III (Cleaner) later in the year, to find out just how much one flat can change.