POPCORN
26 February - 15 March 2025
By Ben Elton
Directed by Aaron Evans
Assistant Director: Mack GrovesIt’s the late 1990s in Hollywood and Oscar season is in the air. Bruce Delamitri, an egocentric ‘artist’, is thriving off the controversy of his newest masterpiece ‘Ordinary Americans’. A film about a young hillbilly couple mass murdering Americans. The main motive for the controversy is that in the real world, a copycat couple, Wayne and Scout, are doing the exact thing!
On returning from a wild night at the Oscars, Bruce brings home a Playboy model, Brooke Daniels, and has an unexpected social call from the Mall Murders, Wayne and Scout. They decide to take Bruce and his unexpected visitors hostage. They demand that Bruce go live on TV to America and state that he’s to blame for their violent actions, as it’s movies that made them do it. The only issue is that Bruce will never, ever do anything to ruin the integrity of his art. As the chaos unfolds, questions about society arise, along with serious moral dilemmas about accountability.
Ben Elton’s satirical take on Quentin Tarantino’s movies and violence in the entertainment industry delivers a thought-provoking, off-beat night out. This dark comedy smacks the audience in the face with outlandish humour and characters while harshly peering behind the scenes into the dark side of Hollywood. The question is, who is to blame for our violent society?
Rated MA15+
Adult Themes, Violence, Sexual References, Coarse Language.
