Hypnodrome
575 10th St
415.377.4202
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Noel Coward's The Better Half, Photo: David M. Allen
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Mar 21, 2008 – May 3, 2008
Fridays & Saturdays (8pm)
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$20 - 34.50
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Scandal and terror have always gone hand in hand in the Thrillpeddlers' repertoire of Grand Guignol-revival theatre, but the two have never been as deliciously paired as in this double bill of theatrical British blood sausage. The evening begins on a caustic note with the US premiere of Noel Coward's "lost" one-act play The Better Half. Coward was only 22 when he wrote this comedy of the poorly mannered, but his biting wit is in full effect. The innuendo continues in The Old Women, a gory, twisted tale set in a French madhouse that the Thrillpeddlers stage with all the sanguine gusto of a Herschell Gordon Lewis splatter-fest.
