Fabulous Creatures at Arcola Theatre

Welcome to the Monstrous Cabaret Club, a place to drown more than your sorrows, where the acts are unreal and the voices to die for! Whether you’re strapping in for the Sirens or caught between Scylla and Charybdis, you’re in for a night you’ll never survive/forget!

Once the pre-eminent killers of the mythical age, who even Gods would turn to for their dirty work, they’ve long given up their license to kill. Now they run a private club hidden somewhere between Mount Olympus and the Underworld.

They used to kill, but now they cabaret:

• SIREN, the woman-bird with the notorious voice
• SCYLLA the rock star with her outrageous costumes
• And last but not least the shapeshifting CHARYBDIS aka “Whirlpool”, the hostess of the grotesque, your MC with no clemency.

But the glamourous routine of their cabaret life is about to be shattered. A desperate and determined woman comes to them for help in taking down her abusive husband before he returns from a ten year war. These fabulous creatures are now faced with a deadly dilemma: sacrifice the safety of the shadows or come out into the light and help a stranger in her hour of need?

As the stakes ratchet up, we move from cabaret to tragedy.

Collide (“clearly a company to keep an eye on”, The Guardian) invites you to an epic new show about revenge and sisterhood. An ensemble of three brings you the never before told story of the female monsters of The Odyssey, blending humour and darkness, myth and modernity and Collide’s signature dream-like aesthetic.

Supported by The Hellenic Embassy in the UK, The Hellenic Centre and Athena40.

STARRING

Hannah van der Westhuysen as Charybdis Jazz Jenkins as Siren Kate Newman as Scylla

CREATIVE TEAM

Writers: Quentin Beroud & Emily Louizou Director: Emily Louizou Executive Producer: Elizabeth Filippouli Movement & Choreography: Ioli Filippakopoulou Music Composition & Sound Design: Irene Skylakaki Set & Costume Design: Ismini Papaioannou Lighting Design: David Doyle Stage Manager: Ibraheem Hamirani Head of Development: George Turner Assistant Director: Costi Levy Assistant Producers: Glerren Bangalan, Amy Cregor Assistant Designer: Ugne Garcia Velickaite Research Assistant: Jessica Weaver Promo images: Mariza Kapsabeli