This production was a fast paced and outrageous comedy where B-Movies, Beach Party Epics and Hitchcock psychological thrillers are given a shotgun marriage. It was a spoof of early '60s surfing movies which dismantles the mystery of the age, while letting us enjoy our nostalgia for it. Innocent, demure and hairy, teenager Chicklet desperately yearns to be part of the Malibu Beach “surf crowd”. Her luck is in when the great Kanaka the undisputed king of the beach agrees to try her out. But the one thing he didn’t bargain for is her unfortunate tendency towards split personalities, including an elderly talk show hostess, a male model named Steve and the entire accountancy firm of Edelman and Edelman. Her most dangerous alter ego is a sexually voracious vixen named Ann Bowman who has nothing less than world domination on her mind. This play gleefully defies logic as it subverts clean-cut Hollywood stereotypes. Charles.

Written by: Charles Busch
Directed by:Lyn Harris
Set Design by: Niall Rea

Producer: Martin McSharry
Stage Manager: Graham Crighton
Deputy Stage Manager: Lyn Harris
Costume Supervisor: Lyn Harris

Reviews

“Squeezing fresh meaning from A Clockwork Orange….. the edge doesn’t get more cutting than A Clockwork Orange’s Alex and his drug fuelled gang of droogs…… an unsettling must-see……. in the post-modern Potthouse…….. staged in and around the concrete and glass of the edgy architecture of Belfast’s Potthouse, it is a startlingly scary and explosive domain for Alex and his rampant gang. The actors leap onto concrete ledges, drape themselves round pillars and spread-eagle their victims on the glass floor of this spacious night-club venue of Potthouse’s Sugar Room. A truly memorable theatrical experience by a local theatre company taking their work out to their audience
— Belfast Newsletter
Writer/Director, Martin McSharry has made inventive use of the glass and steel post-modern environment of this uber-trendy bar ... in Martin McCann as the narrator and protagonist, he has chosen one of the most engaging and gifted young actors to have emerged from the North in a long time ... he stamps his own deceptively sweet presence onto his character as the appalling Alex ... the packed audience voted with its feet to a one of experience by an enterprising young company.
— Irish Times

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