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Hocus Pocus Theatre and Norwich Arts Centre invite you to their
Guilty Party
Intrigue, conspiracy, dancing, live music and more at the ultimate alternative end of year/NYE party
Hocus 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 and ONE LAST BLAST TO CONDEMN 2016 TO THE PAST!
‘We’ll transform the St Benedicts Street venue, re-imagining it as a downtown, sleazy speakeasy styled nightclub dive on the wrong side of the tracks’ said Lucy Enskat of Hocus Pocus’, ‘transforming it from top to bottom with sparkling décor, drapery and slightly suspect glamour’ she added.
Your invitation allows you to explore Norwich Arts Centre as never before. Gain access to secret rooms, experience intimate encounters with intriguing characters, themed sets and 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 reality where spivs and underworld characters are commonplace and innocent by-standers join them 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. It features 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.
At the New Year’s Eve special, as the clock strikes midnight a burlesque explosive blast will erupt as Big Ben chimes and we dance into the new year to finally condemn 2016 to history.
Norwich Arts Centre director Pasco Q Kevlin said ‘Norwich Arts Centre hasn’t hosted a New Year’s Eve party for many years, if at all. But the idea of The Guilty Party was just too good not to do. It combines all the things we do throughout the year – live music, theatre, live art, comedy, film and circus – with added mystery, cabaret and burlesque. And it gives everyone the chance to dress up! We like to think of it as the alternative end of year event’.
The Guilty Party, is set to be both the party and the theatrical event of the year, this year, next year – 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. Opening time is staggered at 8pm and 8.30pm. All will be revealed when you book!
Hocus Pocus Theatre and Norwich Arts Centre present Guilty Party
Immersive, theatrical club experience. Interactive characters, cabaret, installations live band and DJ reimagine the venue as a downtown, sleazy nightclub dive. Age 18+.
Thursday 29th December – Preview, 7.30 – 8.30pm to 12pm £15 / Concs: £12.50
Friday 30th December – Cocktail Night, 7.30pm – 8.30pm to 1am £20 / Concs: £17.50
Saturday 31st December – New Years Eve Special, 8.30 -8.30pm to 2am) £25 / Concs: £22.50
Norwich Arts Centre, St Benedicts Street Norwich NR2 4PG 01603 660352
If available tickets will cost more on the door. Advanced booking is strongly advised.
