GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN bring you the live art community musical: a bare-knuckle fight with virtuosity, legitimacy and taboo.

Book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson
Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall

GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN take a smash-hit musical and smash it! A ‘misfit’ cast skips its way through a toe-tappingly problematic landscape of stereotype – the kind we convince ourselves has been wiped clean off the map by now.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas sees brothel madam Miss Mona run out of town by a crusading do-gooder celebrity. What will her girls do? Will Mona and the Sheriff re-light their spark? Will the local football team’s annual orgy get busted and leave everyone with their pants down? Are GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN just making a pointless song and dance?

Stuffed with cameos and interventions, GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN’s version of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas explores exertion, desire, cliché, the epic and will be unlike any musical you have ever seen.

GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN is a performance company based in Essex and London making work at the crossroads between theatre, live art, cabaret and stand-up. They are particularly interested in humour, endurance, glory and the banal. The company is an Artsadmin Associate Artist and an associate company at both Colchester Arts Centre and Roehampton University.