Back to Musicals

Slapstick: Scherzo Tickets

Chaplin meets Tchaikovsky in this hilarious slapstick comedy.

Keep me updated

We'll tell you as soon as tickets go on sale:

Running until 12 October 2024

Run time 1hr 15mins (no interval)

Includes interval

  • Show info
  • Accessibility

After demolishing more than their fair share of theater and festival stages, Släpstick are turning their mischievous attentions to the grand concert halls of Europe and beyond! Scherzö: a clown-esque concerto for the ages, in which a seemingly highbrow evening of classical repertoire glissandos into a bacchanal of comical mishaps and absurdity. Neither foppy-wigged composers nor their magnum opus are safe from this buffoonery. Behold as a marble bust of Beethoven comes alive and challenges his fellow sculptures to a yodeling battle-royale! Clutch your breast as Schubert’s Erlkönig lament’s his dying son while prancing on a trampoline! Gasp in amazement as the ghost of George Gershwin accompanies a flotilla of rolling instruments- an entire symphony orchestra played by only five musicians and led by an inflatable conductor! It’s Chaplin meets Tchaikovsky, Buster versus Bernstein, and Groucho Marx does Mozart, all rolled up into one raucous oeuvre that deftly mocks the “pomp” in Pomp and Circumstance. Släpstick presents Scherzö: an evening of classical music as you’ve never experienced before. Don’t call it a come Bach, it sure ain’t no symphony, and it’s SO not a sonata! Scherzö!

Running time

1hr 15mins (no interval)

Performance dates

7 October - 12 October 2024

Venue Information

Wilton's Music Hall
Wilton’s Music Hall, Graces AlleyLondonE1 8JB