Maison Foo's PENDULUMS BARGAIN EMPORIUM Kicks Off UK Tour Today

Maison Foo present Pendulums Bargain Emporium, a greedy fairytale for grown ups, a witty and original new shop-set show from 'Memoirs of a Biscuit Tin' hitmakers.

Welcome to Pendulums, purveyors of everything you've ever wanted and more. But everything has a price...what are you willing to pay?

Inspired by 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' Maison Foo entice audiences to join them on a darkly comic and shameless shopping experience like no other, that treads that fine line between greed and necessity, raising the question 'how far will we go to make ourselves happy?' This desperate tale of slavery and greed, told with humour, intimacy and charm uses an inventive blend of storytelling, live music, clowning and puppetry to seek the answer.

Pendulums Bargain Emporium is set in a shop where happiness and success are just one simple transaction away. The story focuses on the greedy wife of the shoemaker, who has built her empire out of the shoemaker's desperate and desolate last piece of leather. But in an empire full of objects that claim to bring happiness, can the wife ever truly be happy herself?

This delightfully playful and witty devised theatre piece was a big hit at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe with audiences and critics alike.

Maison Foo first came to national attention with their highly acclaimed sell out show Memoirs Of A Biscuit Tin at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They took the show on an extensive UK tour through 2011 and 2012 to further critical acclaim and sold out notices.

Maison Foo has been delighting audiences and tickling their imaginations since 2007 with their trademark mischievous new theatre, incorporating an enchanting mix of visual/physical theatre, puppetry, object manipulation and clowning. This exciting East Midlands based company charmingly challenge audiences by devising intriguing and inventive high quality theatre.

It is suitable for ages 14+. Visit www.maisonfoo.co.uk for more information.

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TOUR LISTINGS:

October 2014

Friday 3rd 8pm
Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre
University Park Campus, NG7 2RD
£15, £13, £11
Box Office 0115 846 7777 www.lakesidearts.org.uk

Thursday 9th 7.30pm
Colchester Lakeside Theatre
Wivenhoe Park Colchester C04 3SQ
£12, £8
01206 873 261 www.lakesidetheatre.org.uk

Friday 10th 7.45pm
Peterborough Key Theatre
Embankment Road Peterborough PE1 1EF
£12.50, £10
01733 207 239 www.vivacity-peterborough.com/key-theatre

Saturday 11th 8pm
Uley (Gloucestershire) Prema Arts Centre
South Street Uley Nr Dursley Gloucestershire GL11 5SS
£10, £7 adv, or £12 on door
01453 860 703 www.prema.org.uk

Wednesday15th 7.45pm
Oakham (Leicestershire)Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Ashwell Rd, Oakham, Leicestershire LE15 6QG
£10
01572 758653 www.wegottickets.com

Saturday 18th 7.30
Constantine (Cornwall) Tolmen Centre
Fore St, Constantine, Falmouth TR11 5AA
£10
01326 341 353 www.tolmencentre.co.uk

Thursday 23rd 7.30pm
Eastleigh The Point
Leigh Road, Eastleigh, Hampshire SO50 9DE
£12 / £10
023 8065 2333 www.thepointeastleigh.co.uk
Friday 24th 8pm
Leicester Embrace Arts
Richard Attenborough Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 7HA
£10/12
0116 252 2455 www.embracearts.co.uk

Thurs 30th 8pm
Liverpool Unity Theatre
1 Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG
£10, 8
0844 873 2888 www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

November 2014

1st 7.30pm
Derby Déda
Chapel Street Derby DE1 3GU
£10, £8
01332 370 911 www.deda.uk.com

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