The Mystery of Irma Vep from the Berkeley Rep
Berkeley Repertory Theatre (2025 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94704)
- Full Price:
- $43.00 - $45.00
- Our Price:
- $21.50 - $22.50*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for The Mystery of Irma Vep have expired.
The last date listed for The Mystery of Irma Vep was Sunday May 9, 2004 / 7:00pm.
More Information About The Mystery of Irma Vep
Website
http://www.berkeleyrep.org/HTML/CurrentSeason/IV_description.html
Quotes & Highlights
- "You leave the theatre full of good will, walking on air." --New York Times
- "here's no mystery here: Irma Vep is a lot of fun!" --Contra Costa Times
Description
This vaudevillian tour-de-force thrust the late writer/director/performer Charles Ludlam and his Ridiculous Theatrical Company into the spotlight after its original 1984 production.
Featuring characters such as a sympathetic werewolf, a vampire and an Egyptian mummy, The Mystery of Irma Vep is a comic send-up of Victorian melodrama, Gothic romance and classic horror films.
However, Ludlam's witty literary allusions and subversive political jabs take the play beyond campy slapstick comedy.
Conceived as a full-length quick-change show for two actors playing more than 16 roles, The Mystery of Irma Vep is a hilarious parody you have to see to believe!
About the Ticket Supplier: Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Known for its amazing and adventurous audience, the nonprofit has provided a home for emerging and established artists since 1968. With two stages and a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Berkeley Rep premieres exhilarating new plays and reimagined classics. In the last five years alone, the company has helped send five shows to Broadway: Green Day's American Idiot, Bridge & Tunnel, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Passing Strange and Wishful Drinking. Come see tomorrow's plays today at Berkeley Rep.
Berkeley Rep operates two performance spaces: the Roda Theatre, a state-of-the-art 600-seat proscenium theatre, and the intimate, 400-seat Thrust Stage. The Theatre is located in the heart of downtown Berkeley's arts district, just a half block from the Berkeley BART station, near lots of restaurants, cafe, pubs, and cool retailers.