SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS Returns to Alexander Upstairs Theatre

After a successful debut run at the Alexander Bar and Café Upstairs Theatre this year, SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS returns to the Mother City in 2015.

Actors are egotistical, pampered shits. In their world nothing is real: brick walls are made from balsar wood and gunshot wounds are created painlessly in the makeup trailer. The only way onto this decadent merry-go-round is the casting room, a sterile white chamber where talented and untalented alike scramble for the next role. Rejection is a way of life. No wonder they're bastards, but can you blame them?

In this world of paranoid insecurity, insincerity and outright lies; two actors are waiting for an important casting to begin. Once friends, now rivals the two are forced to endure each others company for the first time in years and as their realtionship unravels they struggle to separate reality from fantasy. The result is SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS.

The show stars US actor Wilson Carpenter alongside Brendan Murray, who have also written the script for SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS, a play that lives up to its title. Directed by Greg Karvellas, the play features props and effects by Juanita Ferreira and Jim Raubenheimer and fight choreography by Alex AnLos.

SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS plays from 6-10 January at 8pm, with tickets costing R80-R90. Bookings are open online at the Alexander Bar website or at the bar itself. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the bar (which is situated on 76 Strand Street in Cape Town) anytime during regular opening hours, on Mondays - Saturdays from 11am to 1am. For telephone bookings and enquiries, call 021 300 1652. SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUS carries an age restriction of 16 due to strong language, ribald humour and onstage violence.