Squizzy Taylor ruled Melbourne with an iron fist. Five foot nothing, but the master of mayhem, menace and fear. Squizzy is comical musical theatre wrapped in the vernacular, rhyme, grind and illusions that go with a powerful metropolis built on love, hate, greed, energy and excitement.

Set to music by Faye Bendrups, with sing-along, bittersweet aria and harmony and set design by Melbourne's world renowned Peter Corrigan. Adaptation and direction by Greg Carroll, lighting design by the atmospheric Nick Merrylees.

Squizzy is muscular theatre with its style firmly set in grotesqueness, lie, false sentiment and hypocrisy. From this momentum oozes the full force of life, humour and the furious fight of the underdog to survive. But if you look a little closer you'll feel and see fear, loathing, drunkenness and violence, along with Squizzy's shockingly un-abashed love of death.

PLEASE NOTE: production contains extreme language.