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Penny Dreadful's Etherdome archiveA piece of very black comedy, based on the gruesome true story of 3 rival dentists, and their search for an effective anaesthetic. Welcome to The Etherdome... In 1850s America, at the start of the so-called Scientific Age, major surgery is still carried out with only a stiff whisky to calm the nerves and tooth extractions with a bit of alcohol or a stick to bite on. A blood-spattered operating theatre was the stark reality. But all that was about to change. In a fairground tent, alongside tea-leaf fortune-tellers, an amazing discovery is made by accident. But who actually made it? Join Penny Dreadful as they travel from Carny Show to laughing-gas party, to nightmare operating theatre. Using high energy physical comedy, scary apparatus - and a bluegrass chorus - they follow the dentists on a journey that ends in addiction, lunacy, and death. But they leave behind a discovery that changes medicine forever.

Cast/Performers

Dennis Herdman, Denise Kelly, Philippe Spall

Creatives/Company

Author: Bernadette Russell
Company: Penny Dreadful
Director: Mick Barnfather
Design: Phil Eddolls
Lighting: Christoph Wagner

Penny Dreadful's Etherdome

Penny Dreadful's Etherdome (Play) production archive for QTIX code T01801096681. Details of all Penny Dreadful's Etherdome archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S103254545

Archive Listings

9 Nov 11
  to
12 Nov 11
Jacksons Lane
Outer London, Greater London
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25 Oct 11Mumford Theatre
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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23 Oct 11Theatre Royal
Winchester, Hampshire
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22 Oct 11Hull Truck Theatre
Hull, Humberside
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21 Oct 11Square Chapel Arts Centre
Halifax, West Yorkshire
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20 Oct 11Arena Theatre
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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30 Sep 11Darlington Arts Centre
Darlington, County Durham
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