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A family musical. Never one to ignore a challenge, adventurer Phileas Fogg, his servant Passepartout and the beautiful Aouda face the most fearsome and fantastic days of their lives. They risk everything to prove that the world can be circled in eighty days - and they've saved a place aboard for you! Brave the waves onboard the ship, climb the clouds in the basket of a balloon, hold on for dear life to the back of a bad tempered elephant - when time's this tight, no transport's too treacherous. But what of arrest, bandits, evil enemies, and the love of a lady? Will such surprises trip up his triumphant return? Suitcases, boxes, steamships, trains and elephants... Brute Farce's startling new re-working of Jules Verne's classic tale whisks the audience from rainy station platforms in nineteenth century London to a technicolour Bollywood vision of the tropics and the frozen wastes of North America. With trademark invention and frantic multi-role characterisation, a cast of five bring Phileas Fogg, his faithful servant and various pursuing police officers, Indian princesses and Wild West bullies garishly to life.

Creatives/Company

Book by: Jules Verne
Author: Phil Willmott
Music: Annemarie Lewis Thomas (based on original songs by Phil Willmott)
Adapted by: Brute Farce