‘A talented young company.’ – EDP 

Hocus Pocus Theatre was set up in 2008 by Artistic Director, Lucy Enskat. The company is an ensemble of professional actors including Lucy Enskat, dancer and choreographer Hannah Ashmore, singer and performer Eleanor Coulson, performer Zoe Saber, musician and puppeteer Gemma Khawaja, vintage music specialist and DJ Leon MacLean and numerous other creative collaborators. The company’s cross-discipline performance style uses strong visual elements such as physical theatre, colourful costumes, light and shadow play and varied sound-scapes creating multi sensory performances for everyone.

The company’s first show Nightmare Café debuted at the Norwich Arts Centre on 7th April 2008 to sell out audiences and they have continued to build on this success. Hocus Pocus Theatre has been on the Escalator talent support scheme and received funding from the Arts Council England for research and development. They have a unique interactive style that blends together grotesque characters, black comedy, absurdist theatre, burlesque, music and movement.

“Pushing at the boundaries of experimental and crossing into the bizarre. They do it superbly well this fresh young company, never taking themselves too seriously and mixing genres, fusing styles and lampooning horror with happy abandon.”     

– David Porter, Eastern Daily Press Apr 2008 

The company has a second strand of work in walkabout performance and tongue in cheek cabaret acts. As resident performers for Salon Rouge, the acclaimed burlesque themed club night at the Junction in Cambridge and creating bespoke performances for vintage club nights in the Eastern region.

Hocus Pocus Theatre also host their own highly successful event, the ‘No Strings’ Burlesque & Cabaret Club in Norwich at the Norwich Puppet Theatre. “A very extraordinary evening” – Future Radio, Platform Show 2009.

 

 

Past Hocus Pocus Theatre performances include:

• The Lowry, Salford Quays

•  Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Mat Fraser’s ‘Burlesque in the Garden of Evil’

• Norwich Puppet Theatre, Hocus Pocus Theatre’s ‘No Strings’ Burlesque & Cabaret Club

• London Burlesque Festival, Battle Royale, Scala, London

• Salon Rouge, The Junction Cambridge (Resident performers)

• The Junction, An Evening with Hocus Pocus Theatre

• ‘OUT THERE’ International Festival, Seachange Arts, Great Yarmouth

•  Bo Nanafana Social Club, The Talk, Norwich

• The Speigel Tent, Bo Nanafana Social Club, Speigel Lates

• PULSE Festival, Regent Theatre, Ipswich 

• Beat Herder Festival, Lancashire

• Camp Bestival, Dorset