The Black Parlour: Back to the Crossroads

Enjoy a live performance of ‘devil’s music’ blues and slide guitar inspired by Ry Cooder’s soundtrack, embroidered with storytelling and performance poetry about the Crossroads mythology and its central figure, Robert Johnson.
One night only - this is a show not to be missed.

“A must see – the best combination of talent and good times”
Anywhere Theatre Festival 2017)

Fat Mattress Productions brings its sell out show to the Black Parlour as part of Horizon Underground. Alex McKean, David Knobel and friends revisit the 1986 film which led them astray from the broad highway of classical music and into the sordid alleyway of the blues.

Ticket Prices:
$20 or $25 at the door

The Black Parlour:
The Black Parlour is our late night theatre program. Let’s start the festival with a Kabaret, no not Cabaret, we punch much harder than that, this is the kind of evening that will leave you Wounded, in all the Right Places. Have you ever been to Crazy Horse in Paris? No, then Mania will take you there one piece of cast of clothing and contortionistic movement at a time. Phew we are cracking a sweat just thinking about them. Fancy an evening of sultry soul music, Beyond the Crossroads revisits the musical genius of Ry Cooder in a search for the lost song. Topology takes your iconic tunes, stretches, bends and scrambles them (almost) beyond recognition, then reassembles them into Tortured Remixes their adventurous new work. The Nambour Variety Show podcast series is rolling out across the digital stratosphere. Part spoof, part history, part on the street-and very real, The Nambour Variety Show will launch in the Black Parlour on Sat 2nd. Check out the full program for Performance times and come and enjoy theatre from the Underground.