Spymonkey's Hysteria

British Farce At Its Finest

Masters of all things farce Spymonkey have their sights set on US shores for the first time and they'll be pulling out all the stops for the American premiere of Hysteria at Tampa's Straz Center and subsequent tour this fall! Simply frothing at the bit to share their most-beloved and longest running show with American audiences, the British comedy theater company presents a delightfully deranged pulp gothic romance that fuses the best of Hitchcock's twisted thrillers and the OTT, hijink-laden comedy of the 1963 Pink Panther film.

Packed to the rafters with mesmeric characters, gut-busting physical comedy and so much farcical melodrama it would make Shakespeare blush from beyond the grave, Hysteria follows the adventures of beautiful and plucky young heroine Laura du Lay, who arrives in the darkest heart of the Northern countryside to work for the reclusive wealthy landowner Forbes Murdston. In his creepy crumbling mansion also resides an even creepier German butler and an unnamed killer lurking in the dark...