AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shockheaded Peter is playing in New York!!!! SO EXCITING! The play (musical!) consists of dark/hilarious vignettes from The Struwwelpeter (along the lines of the The Gashlycrumb Tinies). Favorites include Pauline who plays with matches, the huntsman (hunted by the hare marionette style), fidgety Philip, Augustus who refuses soup and wastes away to nothing, and Conrad who won't stop sucking his thumb (Shockheaded Peter cuts his thumbs off).

From the site:
"In the spirit of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey comes this hilariously gruesome and wildly acclaimed musical staging of a classic 19th Century picture book. Deliciously morbid, occasionally chilling, and entirely unique, Shockheaded Peter illuminates a series of cautionary tales about a horrible cast of disobedient children with a whimsical combination of grand guignol, puppetry, and Victorian melodrama."