Cult cabaret superstars Bourgeois & Maurice are back with a spectacular brand-new show that puts the FUN back into our fundamentally pointless existence. Soho Theatre is thrilled to announce a 21-night run of their brand-new show Pleasure Seekers. Tickets are available now from www.sohotheatre.com.
After a few years locked inside their spaceship B&M are back on earth with a new mission: to dedicate their lives exclusively to pleasure. They’re giving up on cynicism and embracing hedonism as their new religion instead. But like most religions this gets very complicated very quickly. Turns out having fun is quite a lot of hard work…
Pleasure Seekers bellyflops straight into a joy jacuzzi as B&M party their way to ultimate happiness with the hilariously savage wit and unique brand of pop-satire that has made them one of the UK’s most subversive and original musical acts. Life-affirmingly demented, this brand-new show is a high-energy homage to hedonism in all its filthy, fabulous glory. Featuring original music.
Bourgeois and Maurice said: “We’re thrilled to be back at Soho Theatre after 5 years away, and even happier that they’ve let us into their main house to let our wildest ambitions run wild! Pleasure Seekers is a feast for the eyes and ears and it’s incredible to see it brought to life by a phenomenal creative team. We can’t wait to welcome humansexuals to our pleasure palace – it’s gonna be fun but trigger warning: it does get quite weird (sorry).”
Recognised as one of the leading acts in London’s alternative performance scene Bourgeois and Maurice gave their first performance in 2007 and have gone on to tour the world – collecting fans from Belgrade to New York. They have performed at the Royal Opera House, Southbank Centre and Sadler’s Wells and regularly appear at Soho Theatre.
In 2020 they enjoyed critical success with their main stage musical Insane Animals, commissioned and produced by HOME Manchester. The show ran for 3 weeks and was one of the venue’s best-selling productions. They have created a further 8 full-length theatre shows as a double act, and their 2016 show How To Save The World Without Really Trying was one of the top 20 best reviewed comedy shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2016. They have released four studio albums and been commissioned to write songs for BBC Radio 3, Birmingham Rep and Theatre503. In 2017 they created a Virtual Reality music video for their song Opinions, with VR production company Breaking Fourth, which received a Special Jury Mention at the 2018 Raindance Film Festival and won Best VR Experience at GoShort Festival 2019. In January 2019 they released their first scripted webseries, Youthanasia, co-produced by FeatureOne and Supercreeps, which was part of the Official Selection for Stareable Fest 2019.
Bourgeois and Maurice is the brainchild of writer and perfomers Liv Morris and George Heyworth.
