THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP: A Penny Dreadful
by Charles Ludlam
A quick-change, gender-bending comedy!
October 4 - October 22, 2023
Preview Preformances October 4th and 5th Wednesday - Saturday evenings at 7:30pm
Friday matinee October 13th at 2:00pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00pm
Lord Edgar, an Egyptologist, is newly married to Lady Enid, and comfortably residing in Mandacrest Estate. However, Lord Edgar has yet to recover entirely from the passing of his first wife, the eerie Irma Vep.
Two nimble actresses quickly change back and forth between roles of both sexes in a world filled with vampires, ghosts, mummies and werewolves. Charles Ludlam’s groundbreaking satire pokes wicked fun at several genres, including Victorian melodrama, Wuthering Heights and Hitchcock’s film Rebecca.