‘Welcome to the Lounge Limbo…you are neither here nor there…happy hour is between midnight and midnight…our hostesses will see to your every need…the doors are locked now…and they will not open again…so…relax…take a seat…and let the show begin.”

 
Set in a secret bar, a club, a speak easy, in a country smothered by war The Dancer and The Devil presents a cabaret of those displaced, those who have had to hide, to run away from their past lives with hastily packed cases bursting with secrets and stories.

Bright, sparkling and full of comic mischief The Dancer and The Devil invites you to lose yourself in a world of twisted cabaret, the smell of woodsmoke and perfume, the taste of danger, and the wild thrill of the forest.

Meet Cupcakes our Murderous Master Baker, Minue who’ll be whoever you want her to be, Ruby the jewel that fell from the crown, Celeste who’ll dance the maps of your heart, Jacob; Mysterious Master of Ceremony and Laverna who’ll get the fire blazing.

“Imagine yourself however you want to be; beautiful if you are not, rich if you are poor, great if you are small, powerful if you have no power...
I don’t mind as long as you pay…I don’t mind as long as you stay.

With writing and text written for The Dancer and The Devil by Anna Maria Murphy (Kneehigh Theatre; Red Shoes, Trystan and Yseult, National Theatre and BBC Radio 4) and resplendent live music by Julian Gaskell (Julian Gaskell and the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists).