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Toronto: Eldritch Theatre presents “The Strange and Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom” January 29-February 9
Friday, January 3, 2025
25 years after it first crawled out from under your bed, Eldritch Theatre’s premier production makes its horrific return! Please join us for Eldritch Theatre’s revisited classic, The Strange and Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom.
Having survived the ghastly terrors of adolescence in the 1980s, growing up in succubus-haunted, suburban New Bosford, poor Billy Wuthergloom, under the glaring red eyes of a Creepy Musician, gathers together a tattered collection of ghoulish puppets, and relives his horrific journey into adulthood, including his troubled relationship with his doomed best friend, Hirskill Fischmascher, an uncanny child-mystic, who could see things that other people couldn’t.
Written and performed by Eric Woolfe, accompanied by the creepy musician, Kathleen Welch, directed by longtime accomplice Mairi Babb, audiences will rediscover the horrors of puberty. We promise it terrifies us as much as it does you, even we can quake with fear. We hope you, the press, will join us for our return to our first-ever play, which won Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Performer, and Outstanding Score in its first iteration.
“There’s always been something of the carnival barker about Woolfe and his work. Drawn in by the promise of witnessing eerie, uncanny sights, we in the audience pay our two bits and willingly enter his world.” - Glenn Sumi, Toronto Star
The Strange & Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom opens at the Red Sandcastle Theatre on Wednesday, January 29, and closes on Sunday, February 9. Performances Tuesday through Saturday begin at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday matinees begin at 3:30 p.m.
General Admission in-advance: $35
At the Door: $40
Tight Wad Tuesday: $25
Masquerade Wednesday: $25 (Masks required)
Sundays: Pay What Pleases You
Website: eldritchtheatre.ca.