Expial Atrocious are bringing their 5-star absurdist horror to VAULT Festival 2023, and you’re all invited…
“Welcome to the kitchen where dreams come to die.
After working in a basement kitchen for as long as they can remember, Master Sausage only knows one thing. Eat, sleep, sausage, repeat. Trying to appease the greed of their faceless employers, the Top Steps, they work relentlessly and cannot imagine their life beyond the butchery.
But when a babbling, fresh-faced Apprentice arrives, a harsh reality is brought with them. With their daily routine disrupted, the Master is forced to look their life in the eye and climb into the belly of the beast. As tensions rise, sinister questions rear their heads. What does it mean to be happy? Is there more to life than this? What’s in those sausages anyway?
‘Sweeney Todd’ meets ‘The Trap Door’ in this blood-thirsty absurdist thriller about challenging tradition, surviving in a cut-throat world and doing what has to be done…”
REVIEWS:
Fringebiscuit ★★★★★ “Stellar performances, sensational writing and masterfully executed stagecraft. Powerful, moving and thrillingly gruesome.”
EdFringeReview ★★★★ “A nightmarish piece of theatre.”
British Theatre Guide ★★★★ “An experience that will leave you shocked, shaken and possibly feeling like you want a shower afterwards.”
CONTENT WARNINGS: Suitable for ages 15+. Flashing lights, loud/uncomfortable sound effects and music, depictions of stylised/physical violence and body horror, graphic descriptions of death and murder, reference to death and suicide.
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