A Butcher’s shop. A retired ballroom dancer and his loyal servant. A slumberous parcel awaits to be discovered… The Dark Laugh Theatre returns with a mask show full of twisted contradictions, meat and meetings, rump and rambunctious play, laughter and slaughter…

A simple heart-felt story that tells, with stunning clarity, how a seemingly small event can turn people’s lives upside down. Set in 1950s South Africa, a tiny family butchery run by a prematurely retired ballroom dancer and his ever loyal servant Boy. The rigid routine of their lives is interrupted by the arrival of a parcel.

2011 Naledi ‘Best New Cutting Edge Production’ Winner, Sylvaine Strike, directs a deliciously macabre and bloody tale in collaboration with Dark Laugh Theatre Company. Exquisitely performed in mask by Mongi Mthombeni and Jaques de Silva, this one hour epic will delight and intrigue even the most diehard vegetarian. 2010 Standard Bank Ovation Award Winner.

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