The creative team behind 2007's critically acclaimed Midsumma season at the CUB Malthouse of Rageboy reunite for a brand new work, A Black Joy: a pitch-black half-satire exploring celebrity and cannibalism in the twenty-first century.

Equal parts high-camp, Grand Guignol and nauseating social commentary, A Black Joy fuses the lives of seven desperate characters into a sickly cycle. Borrowing from the exploitation films of Hershell Gordon Lewis and the aesthetics of John Waters and Russ Meyer, the humour is so dark it verges on nihilism...

Playing characters we all know well, John Candy, Diane Keaton, Bette Davis and more, A Black Joy features a large group of artists including Anne Browning (The China Incident), Chris Bunworth (3 Dollars), Tom Considine (Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America), Ash Flanders (I love you, bro), Miriam Glaser (City Homicide), Carole Patullo (A Man for All Seasons) and Megan Twycross (Attempts on Her Life).