THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHERETTES
Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror of a not dissimilar title, this is the eye-goggling tale of a crumbling old cinema called The Empire. It's the tale of LIQUID FILM, a long defunct celluloid mixture once sprayed from specialized projectors, whose leaked ghosts still flicker in the old fleapit's labyrinthine libraries.
It's the tale of the doomy Usherettes who guard their treasures against tomb-robbers from the National Archive. It's the story, in glorious Technicolor, both live and on film, of the House of Usherettes and of its Fall.
Enter the bizarre and hilarious world of film spliced into live action, of cobwebbed Würlitzers, crumbling caryatids and monstrous shark-infested developing tanks. This revival of their hugely popular 1995 show celebrating 100 years of Cinema mixes the magic of early film fantasy with the surreal comic strip ingenuity of Forkbeard at their most gloriously anarchic.
"A hypnotic delight..... whatever they're on should be made available on the National Health"
The Scotsman
"Brilliant inventiveness and ingenious technical wizardry"
The Guardian
"A consummate side-splitting treat"
The Sunday Times
"A magnificent excess of inventiveness"
Time Out (Critic's Choice for five weeks)