DINNER WITH THE TWITS Runs for Just Three More Weekends
By: Ashlee Latimer Oct. 10, 2016
Dinner at the Twits, the gloriously gruesome interactive theatrical dining experience from the award-winning team behind the Olivier Award-nominated smash hit Alice's Adventures Underground, in association with gastronomic wunderkinds Bompas & Parr, must end its run at the Vaults on Sunday 30 October.
Dinner at the Twits marks the first adults-only adaptation of one of Dahl's children's titles and has proved hugely popular with audiences brave enough to face a culinary cornucopia and 90 minutes of entertainment from the most horrid hosts imaginable. Saturday night performances are already sold out, so grab your tickets while you still can.
Guests are cordially invited to the worst dinner party in the world at the revolting residence of the Twits. Once inside the ghastly garden, you will hunt for concealed canapes and be treated to prickly cocktails, before proceeding into the windowless house for a baroque bird pie banquet, perilous puddings and wine, all the while being entertained by Mr and Mrs Twit and their Muggle Wump circus.
There are also just three weeks left to visit Mr and Mrs Twit's Upside Down Cocktail Cavern in The Vaults, open from 6pm until late Tuesday to Saturday, where everyone can pop in to sample such tantalising tinctures as Mr Twit's Beard Old Fashioned, (scotch blended with Stilton, sardine and cornflake) and the Dirty Negroni (mixing Campari and sweet vermouth with wormy mezcal). The Cavern will close on Saturday 29 October so don't miss the last chance to tickle your tastebuds and expand your horizons in London's most unusual drinking den.
Dinner at the Twits
The Vaults, Waterloo
4 September - 30 October 2016
Tickets priced from £71.50 available from www.twitsdinner.com / 0844 248 1215
90 minutes, no interval
Minimum age 16+. Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.
Some dietary requirements will be catered for if notified in advance, please contact info@twitsdinner.com
Prices
Tuesday & Wednesday: Standard: £70 Premium: £100
Thursday: Standard: £85 Premium: £105
Friday & Saturday: Standard: £90 Premium £110
Sunday Brunch: Standard: £75 Premium: £95
A £1.50 booking fee will be added to advance online and phone bookings.
Standard tickets: Over 90 minutes you will be given a prickly cocktail aperitif, eat gruesome hors d'oeuvres, hunt for concealed canapes, brave a baroque bird pie banquet and potentially perilous pudding in the windowless dining room, all served with ½ bottle of wine or non-alcoholic drinks.
Premium ticket: Premium ticket holders will also receive an additional fizz cocktail on arrival prepared by the mixologists at Bompas & Parr, a bar of Mr Twit's personally smoked chocolate, a cup of Mrs Twit's home brew in the Mr and Mrs Twit's Upside Down Cocktail Cavern and a copy of the limited edition Dinner at the Twits programme, which includes exclusive recipes from Bompas & Parr.
Groups
Groups of 10 or more benefit from a reduced booking fee of £1 per ticket.
Groups of up to 9 people are able to book their tickets online. Larger groups must be booked by calling 0844 248 1215.
Exclusive bookings
Exclusivity of the show at Premium rate can be booked for 80 people. Tickets must be booked on 0844 248 1215. Tickets include banquet, wine or non-alcoholic drinks with dinner, two cocktails, programme and chocolates.
Timings
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturday evenings:
6pm, 7.15pm and 8.30pm
Saturday matinees:
12pm, 1.15pm and 2.30pm
Sundays:
12pm, 1.15pm, 2.30pm and 3.45pm
Mr and Mrs Twit's Upside Down Cocktail Cavern
The Vaults, Waterloo
4 September - 29 October 2016
Free entry and open to the general public
From 6pm - late
Tuesday - Saturday
18+
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Les Enfants Terribles (Producers and Creators)
'Razor sharp theatre group Les Enfants Terribles' (The Telegraph) is one of the most innovative and exciting theatre companies working today.
Our work includes award winning, international stage shows such as The Trench, The Terrible Infants and The Vaudevillains; groundbreaking immersive work like Alice's Adventures Underground and The Game's Afoot; innovative outdoor touring work such as The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie and large scale public events for the likes of Save the Children, the British Library and the V&A.
The company is dedicated to creating original, innovative and exciting theatre. Known for our striking visual aesthetic and innovative use of props, puppetry and live music we are constantly pushing ourselves to explore new ways of telling stories and immersing ourselves and our audiences in the weird and wonderful worlds created by our shows. Our artistic policy is to make theatre we love and theatre that excites us, and we hope in turn excites our audiences.
Founded in 2001 by Artistic Director Oliver Lansley, the company has continued to grow and receive consistent critical acclaim, won top industry awards, been nominated for an Olivier Award and established a large and loyal following for its unique work. Long-time collaborator James Seager came on board as a Producer to co-run the company in 2005. The company has performed to thousands of people all over the world including Poland, Czech Republic, Dubai, Norway, Singapore, Australia, as well as building a large and loyal rural touring audience.
'A talented company with a very sure sense of its own distinctive storytelling style.' The Guardian
The children's arm of Les Enfants, Les Petits Theatre Company, was established in 2012 to inspire, enthuse, entertain and delight young audiences. Using well-known and loved children's literature we aim to take stories from the page and bring them to life in creative and exciting ways. Les Petits shows include Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs, Adventures in Wonderland, Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs 2: The Magic Cutlass and David Walliams' The First Hippo On The Moon.
Bompas & Parr (Culinary Directors)
Bompas & Parr, founded in 2007, is a successful experiential design studio renowned for ground-breaking concepts that have attracted worldwide media attention. The Drum named it Experiential Agency of the Year 2014.
Bompas & Parr leads in flavour-based experience design, culinary research, architectural installations and contemporary food design, creating emotionally compelling, inspiring and highly memorable disruptive experiences. Notable projects include the Taste Experience for the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin and Flavour Fireworks for London's New Year's Eve 2014.
The studio first came to prominence through its expertise in jelly-making, but has since gone on to create immersive flavour-based experiences some of the largest companies who determine much of what the world eats today - such as Cargill, Diageo, Kraft and Unilever.
It has collaborated with some of the world's foremost cultural institutions, including Barbican Art Gallery, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Salon del Mobile, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Serpentine Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and the Wellcome Collection.
The studio collective comprises a team of creatives, producers, cooks, designers, specialised technicians and architects. Bompas & Parr also collaborates with specialist technicians, engineers, artists, scientists, musicians and many other disciplines to create wondrous events.
Bompas & Parr has published five books and been named by the Independent as one of "The 15 people who will define the future of arts in Britain".
ebp (Producer and General Manager)
ebp is a live entertainment company - acting as Producers, Promoters, General Managers and Talent Management. ebp was nominated for a 2016 Olivier Award for Alice's Adventures Underground.
Founded in 2013 the mission is simple - work with the best on the very best productions in the entertainment industry.
Productions include: The Game's Afoot (Madame Tussauds; London); Sherlock Holmes: The Experience (Madame Tussauds; London); Alice's Adventures Underground (The Vaults); Adventures In Wonderland (The Vaults); Wonderland Sessions (The Vaults); Alexander Armstrong: A Year Of Songs (UK Tour & London Palladium); Freddie Flintoff: 2nd Innings (UK Tour & Palace Theatre); Nina Conti: In Your Face (Criterion Theatre and UK Tour); Blofeld & Baxter: Rogues On The Road (UK Tour); The Three Lions (UK Tour & St James Theatre); Joe Stilgoe: New Songs For Old Souls Live (UK Tour & Old Vic Theatre); Grumpy Old Women Live (UK Tour), Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards (Edinburgh); Programming for City Of London Festival (The Bowler Hat); Dame Diana Rigg: No Turn Unstoned (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Blofeld & Baxter: Memories Of Test Match Special (UK Tour); Meow Meow: Feline Intimate (LonDon Wonderground); Secret Cinema 21:Millers Crossing (Hornsey Town Hall); The Boy With Tape On His Face: Cornucopia (Palace); The El Train (Hoxton Town Hall); The Future Of Small Scale Touring Symposium (Paines Plough, Royal Exchange, Manchester); Dinner At The Twits (The Vaults, London).
Oliver Lansley (Writer & Producer)
Oliver is an actor, writer, director and Artistic Director of Les Enfants Terribles, which he founded in 2002.
As an actor he's best known for playing Kenny Everett in the BAFTA-winning The Best Possible Taste, which earned him a Best Actor nomination at the RTS Awards. Other credits include: The Wrong Mans, Sherlock, and Misfits. He has recently been seen in The Quiet House at Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Park Theatre.
Oliver's first published play Immaculate was listed in the top ten best-selling plays at Samuel French London in 2010, other published works include: Les Enfants Terribles: Collected Plays, Flies and The Infant. Oliver has since seen his work produced all over the world and translated into several languages.
LET's work includes The Terrible Infants, The Trench, Ernest And The Pale Moon, The Vaudevillains and, most recently, the Olivier Award-nominated Alice's Adventures Underground - Oliver writes and is directly involved in all aspects of the company's output, often also as Director.
A past winner of Channel Four's Multi-Talented Award and also a Broadcast magazine Hotshot, Oliver co-created the BBC 2 series Whites, and the Rose d'Or nominated ITV2 series FM. He has written on numerous other productions, including the Nick Frost series Mr Sloane; Rotters, starring Comedy Award Winners Dr Brown, Sam Simmons, Jon Kearns and Frank Skinner; and Alan Davies's Little Cracker for Sky, which he also directed.
He is currently developing new television projects for HBO, FX and the BBC.
Emma Earle (Director)
Emma is a Director and Producer. She is Co-Artistic Director of Pins and Needles Productions, and Associate Director of Les Enfants Terribles. For Pins and Needles, Emma is currently working on her adaptation of Mr Popper's Penguins, which plays at the New Victory Theatre in New York this autumn before a Christmas run in the West End; and a new adaptation of The Little Mermaid, with the egg theatre in Bath. For Les Enfants Terribles, she is currently working on an outdoor festival show entitled The Fantastical Flying Laboratory.
Directing credits for Pins and Needles include Raymond Briggs' The Bear (Polka/The Albany) and Father Christmas(Lyric Hammersmith/West Yorkshire Playhouse), both of which return this Christmas; Scoop (Latitude); Flies (Tobacco Factory); Ernest And The Pale Moon (UK tour); Holly And Ivan's Christmas Adventure (Lyric Hammersmith); Select A Quest (Bristol Old Vic); The Elves And The Shoemakers (Tobacco Factory) and Gizmo Love (Tobacco Factory). For Les Enfants Terribles: Adventures in Wonderland (The Vaults); The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie (UK tour); Anyone for Tea (UK tour); Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (Old Vic Tunnels); Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs (UK and international tours). Emma is also an Associate Artist of the egg, Theatre Royal Bath, and has directed numerous productions in both the egg and Ustinov Studio, including Glengarry Glen Ross; The Shape of Things; and Beasts and Beauties. Emma trained at the National Theatre Studio and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Anthony Spargo (Writer)
Anthony trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where he graduated with honours. He has co-written various theatre productions for Les Enfants Terribles including: Anyone for Tea, The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie, Adventures in Wonderland and the Olivier nominated Alice's Adventures Underground.
He is also currently co-writing The Fantastical Flying Exploratory Laboratory which tours the UK this summer.
He has also written and starred in numerous short films including Lenny Beige: Legend to Legend with Liam Gallagher, Gregory Humphreys Presents a Complete History of Britain and A Woodcutter's Tale.
Samuel Wyer (Designer)
As Theatre Designer:
The Game's Afoot (Madame Tussauds, London); Alice's Adventures Underground (Les Enfants Terribles, The Vaults); Goosebumps Alive! (The Vaults); The Elephantom (National Theatre and New London Theatre); The Light Princess (Assistant Designer and Illustrator, National Theatre); All's Well That Ends Well (Assistant Designer, Shadow Puppet Designer, National Theatre); Ragnarök (Eastern Angles Theatre); Under the Eiderdown and The Space Invaders Agency(Punchdrunk); The Trench, The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie, The Vaudevillians and The Terrible Infants (Les Enfants Terribles) (UK and international tours); The Voodou Ball, The Acid Test, Scoundrels' Hollow, (ShotgunCarousel); Ovid's Metamorphoses (Pants on Fire Theatre) (New York and UK tour).
As Puppet Designer/Maker:
The House Where Winter Lives (Punchdrunk); Myrkwood, A Christmas Carol and The Jabberwocky (Petersham Playhouse); Peepshow (Twice Shy); The Greatest Liar In All The World (Familia de la Noche); The Silly Kings (National Theatre of Wales).
Samuel Wyer is also an art director, illustrator, and sometimes performer. He works in a diverse range of theatrical environments and places such as Jordan, Sri Lanka, and the mountains of La Rioja, as well as across the UK.
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