Motor-mouth Loves Suck-face 2016
Motor-mouth
Loves
Suck-face
(an apocalyptic musical)
Welcome to the party to end all parties - where Blasko Tupper, teenage master of the dark arts has just kidnapped her entire school – including Motor-mouth and Suck-face, two geeks in lust and love who have until midnight to lose their virginity, escape through a cosmic wormhole and save the planet – in the other dimension. Everything goes according to plan, that is, until Blasko’s parents escape their cage and start transforming hysterical teenagers into mindless zombies. With a rock-pop score of songs like My Polar Bear, Heart Be A Radio andI’d Rather Be A Zombie, Motor-mouth Loves Suck-face is a musical comedy about hope, for the young and the young at heart. Did we mention the Bollywood diversion? Prepare to di
“Shut up and listen. In exactly ten minutes and fifty three seconds the world is going to end. But that’s not important right now. What’s important is how this all began, because if you can understand that, if by some miracle clarity wedges it’s sweet toe beyond the apathy of boot scooting zombies then maybe, just maybe there’s hope for us all in this knee deep existentialist sludge-pile we so loosely refer to as life. Translation? It all started with a party. The party to end all parties. My name is Blasko Tupper. Prepare to die.”
“Having two teenage geek girls sing to their geek hero boy… is actually completely radical and powerful… none of the male characters were undermined or emasculated by their positions… and needless to say, on behalf of the female characters the concept of ‘slut’ or ‘nympho’ was not even in the room. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before in anything. Ever. Wow.”
“This show is frickin’ awesome! A rollicking good time that left me 💔 in tears”
“Classic B Grade 70s Zombie flick meets Rocky Horror Picture Show - pure genius”
“I’m lying awake thinking about your stunning show tonight. I want to write so many things: the utterly sublime music and lyrics ; the cleverness and poignancy of the themes ; the cohesiveness of the ensemble...”