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Guilty Party Hocus Pocus Theatre and Norwich Arts Centre invite you to their Guilty Party Theatre, intrigue, conspiracy, dancing, live music and more at the ultimate end of year/NYE party
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ocus Pocus Theatre, aided and abetted by a close knit firm of co-conspirators will take over the whole of Norwich Arts Centre for three nights leading up to (and including) New Year’s Eve for the ultimate in theatrical end of year parties – a truly Guilty Party. The St Benedicts Street venue will be reimagined as a downtown, sleazy, nightclub dive
on the wrong side of the tracks, transformed from top to bottom with sparkling décor, drapery and slightly suspect glamour. Dreams are an escape from reality and reality is much darker than you ever imagine and watch out for the intriguing secret Your invitation allows you to explore Norwich Arts Centre as never before. To gain access to secret rooms, to experience intimate
encounters with intriguing characters, themed sets and to succumb to sweet temptation. Social commentary meets social experiment in this underground, immersive and surreal living comedy. Turning cabaret on its head, making a song and dance of the state of the nation. Meet the club’s sleazy proprietor and his menagerie of performers who spin a tale of power, corruption and deceit in a world where crooks are commonplace and innocent bystanders turn to crime in the blink of an eye. Hocus Pocus Theatre and their usual suspects No Strings Burlesque & Cabaret Club & Boogaloo have teamed up with the finest performers around to throw a party you will never forget. Featuring cabaret and circus from Gossamer Thread’s Vaudeville Co.’s Daisy Black and Alex McAleer (Curious Cabaret, Greatest Show on Earth), a secret cinema, live music from the house band and dancing late into the night to DJ Jazzlord spinning the finest selection of vintage rarities. The Guilty Party, is set to be both the party and the theatrical event of the year, this one and next – and probably the one after too! Attenders are encouraged to dress for the occasion, interpreting in their own way the themes of prohibition era uninhibited speakeasies, underworld glamour and daring decadence… will you be the Guilty Party?
20 | December 2016
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