Simon Munnery presents a brand new show. Its an extravagant mess of foaming bubble hats, superlative jokes, bad guitar riffs, delightful monologues, hand-made engineering feats and an overly ambitious one-man punk musical about the R101 airship of the 1930s. All performed with a plum. Or some other fruit.

“The Peter Cook of his generation” – Stewart Lee

Set in a secret bar, a nightclub hidden in the forest, The Dancer and The Devil presents the story of those displaced, those who have had to hide, to run away from their past lives scarred by war time secrets. Bright sparkling and full of comic mischief The Dancer and The Devil invites you to lose yourself in a world of entertainment, the smell of wood smoke and perfume, the taste of danger and the wild thrill of the forest. 

Originally developed at BAC, Prema, The Lowry and in the woods, The Dancer and The Devil is a theatre show, a blend of showmanship and poetry mixing spectacle, narrative and dance with enthralling live music and a wild spirit.

What starts as a group of local girls escaping the rigidity of their everyday lives, quickly spirals into community-wide hysteria with ‘witches’ being found at every turn.  As more and more people are condemned to death, can John Proctor convince those in power that the girls are frauds, led by a girl hell-bent on replacing his wife?