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Strange Bedfellows

Mad Diva Productions In Association With The Impulse Company

Visualise this - as Simon and Garfunkel bubbles from the speakers, the lights go up revealing a man masturbating on a bed. Then, a woman enters dressed as Marilyn Monroe, singing 'Happy Birthday Mr President'. No, this is not a scary dream I had last night, but a scene from 'Strange Bedfellows'. With lines like 'I am going to chop wood and then cook your dinner' and 'daddy's very open minded, he's an abolitionist', I was left spluttering with fits of uncomfortable giggles. Thanks to Mad Diva Productions, the terrifying theatrical tableaux of Tonya Harding (notorious ice-skater) talking to Fredrick Douglass, as Marilyn Monroe wields an axe, will haunt me to my very core.

The Zoo, 1- 25 Aug, 4.00pm (5.00pm), prices vary, fpp 234

tw rating: 1/5

published: Aug-2008

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