EDINBURGH 2023: CREEPY BOYS Q&A
Creepy Boys comes to Summerhall this August
By: Natalie O'Donoghue Jun. 30, 2023
BWW catches up with S. E. Grummett & Sam Kruger of Scantily Glad Theatre to chat about bringing Creepy Boys to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Tell us a bit about Creepy Boys
The Creepy Boys are throwing their 13th birthday. You’re invited! It’s gonna have everything: Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably Cake. These horny little boys bring you sexy dances, party games and reenact their own birth, all while interrogating the trappings of millennial nostalgia. Real life lovers (us, S.E. Grummett & Sam Kruger) turned identical twins, the Creepy Boys will do whatever it takes to make their birthday dreams come true in this bizarre new comedy with just a splash of the occult.
How involved do the audience get?
You are our birthday party guests! And you’ll be treated exactly as such. With all the deference and direct eye contact you’d expect from attending a 13-year-olds b-day blast. And, if you’re good, we may just sacrifice you to Satan.
Exactly how creepy is it?
We wouldn’t say it is Alien creepy, or neighbor-who-smells-of-soup creepy, or even lizard-in-slow-motion creepy. But we’d say it is somewhere between those twins from the Shining and “My Super Sweet Sixteen”. Like an after-hours ride on that county fair roller coaster you swore burned down last summer.
Who would you like to come and see it?
Just about everybody: Your spooky gays. Your goth girls. Your alt-comedy weirdos. But also fun buddies! Anyone looking for a new best friend, a life companion and eternal youth.
And who would you suggest maybe doesn’t?
Well, we don’t like singling people out, and we know this is a little hot right now, but Hitler.
Not a fan.
Also he’s a corpse. Sort of against corpses seeing the show in general honestly. Not generous laughers. They make everything…we don’t know…uncomfortable somehow? Uptight, you know. Though the rigor mortis probably has something to do with that.
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Photo credit: Nick Robertson
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