SLUGS
Creepy Boys / So.Glad Arts (Canada)
- Thu Jan 29 9PM
- Fri Jan 30 9PM
- Sat Jan 31 9PM
Anarchic // Absurdist // Cathartic
It’s about nothing. We promise.
From the award-winning performance/comedy duo Creepy Boys (S.E. Grummett & Sam Kruger), this anarchic fever dream is a techno-punk concert, a play, a clown show, and a basement puppet nightmare all rolled into one. In a neon haze of chaos and charm, two performers attempt to make a show about nothing—until meaning starts leaking in through the cracks.
SLUGS spirals from DIY absurdity into something strangely profound, fusing electronic comedy songs, trash puppetry and live camera magic into a meltdown of meaning. It’s “brilliantly smart and beautifully stupid” (The Guardian), and it might be the most fun you’ll have while the planet burns.
For tonight, at least, we are free.
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Artist Bio
Creepy Boys / So.Glad Arts
S.E. Grummett and Sam Kruger proudly make joyful, deliciously funny, big-hearted, queer comedy and theatre for the intrigued. Real-life lovers, the pair perform under the duo name CREEPY BOYS, recently nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award.
As CREEPY BOYS and with their own solo works, they have toured extensively around the world including across Canada (Buddies in Bad Times, Summerworks Festival), US (Twin Cities Horror Festival), UK (Soho Theatre, Latitude Festival, Edinburgh Fringe), Europe (Prague Quadrennial, LiteraturHaus Copenhagen) and Australia (Midsumma Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Fringe World). Their work has also been featured on the BBC Radio 4 and CBC Radio.
S.E. Grummett (they/them) is a queer, transgender theatre artist from Treaty 6 Territory. Over the past 5 years, Grumms has created a body of original queer work and toured it around the world, including Canada, US, UK, Europe and Australia. Their solo-show, “Something in the Water”, which won Best Theatre at the Adelaide Fringe, has toured around the world to queer audiences young and old. Recently they created, “The Adventures of Young Turtle”, a puppet musical for queer and trans youth created with indie music icon, Rae Spoon, which won 2 Sterling Awards in Edmonton for Outstanding TYA Production. Grumms is the recipient of the inaugural 2SLGBTQIA+ Multidisciplinary Artist Award presented by the Sask Foundation for the Arts and the 2022 RBC Outstanding Award in recognition for their contribution to the queer and trans community across Saskatchewan. Outside of self-creation, Grumms also works as a director, puppeteer & video artist.
Sam Kruger (he/him) is a performer, sound designer, and recent immigrant to Canada. His solo works “Fool Muun Komming! [BeBgWunderful/YEsyes/ 4sure.Hi5/TruLuv;SpankSpank:SOfun_Grate_Times”, “Bat Brains or (let’s explore mental illness with vampires)”, and duo comedy Creepy Boys, have toured throughout Canada, the US, the UK, Europe, and Australia since 2018 to acclaim and various awards. Kruger’s emphasis is in the creation of original theatre that draws on Lecoq-style physical theatre, Gaulier-esqe clown, performance art, and surrealism. Often exploring themes of isolation, loneliness, and the performativity of everyday life, Kruger’s work is funny, physical, stupid, sincere, wiggly and proudly weird. He holds a BA from the University of Minnesota, and is a graduate of the Ecole Philippe Gaulier, in Étampes, France.
Artist Links:
- Instagram: @grumtumtugger / @a__samuel__ / @thecreepyboys
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Venue
1398 Cartwright St, Vancouver
Content Advisory
For adult audiences
Nudity; representation of sexual violence and gun violence; suggestion of suicide; coarse language; sexually explicit content with audience interaction
Flashing lights; haze; use of prop firearms
Showtimes & Tickets
Standard: $39 // Generous: $59
Credits
Created & Performed by S.E. Grummett & Sam Kruger Dramaturg/Outside Eye Caleigh Crow Music Shirley Gnome, S.E. Grummett, Sam Kruger Outside Eyes Caleigh Crow, Justin Miller, Deanna Fleysher Puppetry & Live Animation Mentor Zach Dorn Outside Ear Sacha Crow Technical Director Tori Morrison Sound Design Sam Kruger Puppet Design S.E. Grummett Additional Design Taegan O’Bertos, Holly Brinkman, Logan Stefura, Eish Van Wierren, Hale Reap, Wesley Babcock, Lowen Morrow
WITH THE SUPPORT OF Creative Saskatchewan, SK Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, High Commission of Canada in London, Common Ground Arts