Cheryl – A Rock Opera
MUSICSpoken word,Comedy

Cheryl – A Rock Opera

Presented by Attila the Stockbroker and John Otway / PBH's Free Fringe · UNITED KINGDOM - ENGLAND

PBH's Free Fringe @ Bannermans · Back Cave
11 - 15 Aug
60 min · Age EIGHTEEN
100% available

6 performances tracked

About the show

Cheryl was a big hit at the 1991 Fringe and Attila and Otway thought we'd revive it for its 35th anniversary. An everyday tale of Satanism, trainspotting, drug abuse and unrequited love set on a station platform. Based, of course, on Otway's show-stopping song Cheryl's Going Home. Why is she going home – to Slough of all places – and who's her horny friend Billy? Attila knows. He spills the beans in stentorian Chaucerian verse. Otway responds with a series of ever more pathetic excuses in song. Then MC Trainspotter turns up...

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