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UPDATE - Julian Bleach, here seen as the MC with the magnifying glass, is playing Davros, twisted, crippled creator of the Daleks, in the upcoming season finale of Doctor Who!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
SHOCKHEADED PETER - Songs for Naughty Children
Der Struwwelpeter is a German children's book from 1845 featuring ten verse tales about naughty children and the dark, Germanic punishments they recieve. Struwwelpeter (Shaggy Peter, usually translated into English as "Shock-Headed Peter") tells of a boy who doesn't groom himself, and whose hair and nails grow to outlandish lengths (making him look rather like Edward Scissorhands). This story, and the other 9 in the book, became a fabulously weird cabaret-style show in 2005, using songs, puppets and pantomine. I saw it in New York and was blown away. After the jump, a YouTube video of highlights.
Labels:
black comedy,
cabaret,
grand guignol,
shockheaded peter,
struwwelpeter
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YES!!!
thats what the world needs.... more creepy cabarets.. YES, from the back of the room with resounding umph. YES
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