Esra Taf Theatre and JHRMusics present
‘Scaramouche Jones’ by Justin Butcher

The performance is set in a small ‘ante-room’ to the side of Big Top circus ring… a clown’s makeshift dressing room.
From Scarramouche’s birth at midnight on New Year’s Eve in 1899 in a dingy Trinidad knocking shop, his life has been a vivid odyssey through extraordinary adventures, crumbling empires and the darkest episodes of the 20th century. Now, as the champagne corks fly on Millennium Eve, Scaramouche is about to give his last and most important performance. He steps out of the circus ring, peels away his outer disguises and reveals the loves, brutalities, ecstasies and tragedies that created the seven white masks of Scaramouche Jones.
An engrossing, charming, movingly comic performance, powerfully portraying one man’s remarkable journey through adventure, mis-adventure, fear and delight; on the eve of his death, he ‘re-lives’ 100 years of an extraordinary life.

The role was first played and toured internationally to great acclaim by Pete Postlethwaite. The author, Justin Butcher, has personally sanctioned this new production.

A performance not to be missed!