Frankenstein’s alive and he’s about to extract your wisdom teeth!

Award-winning Penny Dreadful’s ‘Etherdome’ by Bernadette Russell comes to The Playhouse stage on Saturday September 17 at 8pm as part of The Big Tickle Comedy Festival.

It’s the start of the so-called Scientific Age, major surgery including amputation, heart surgery - and tooth extraction – is still carried out with only a stiff whisky or a stick to bite on.

In a fairground tent, alongside tea-leaf fortune-tellers, an amazing discovery is made by accident. But who actually made it?

Mick Barnfather (Peepolykus, Right Size, Complicité) directs this extraordinary disaster-comedy, where the quest for pain relief takes a detour via lunacy, addiction and a duck pond!

“Penny Dreadful’s Etherdome has been described as “grotesque comedy at its finest” and so we couldn’t resist bringing it here for the Big Tickle!” Áine McCarron at The Playhouse said.

“This great night of comedy theatre promises mischief, wit and more than a few bizarre antics! Trust us this won’t hurt a bit.”

Tickets for Penny Dreadful’s ‘Etherdome’ at The Playhouse on Saturday September 17 at 8pm are £11/ £8. To book contact The Playhouse Box Office on (028)71268027 or visit www.derryplayhouse.co.uk.