Bury the Hatchet tells the story of Lizzie Borden at the Anvil Theatre, October 17

U.K.–based Out of the Forest Theatre’s production fuses gallows humour and vaudevillian horror

Anvil Theatre presents Bury the Hatchet, a production by award-winning U.K. ensemble Out of the Forest Theatre, on October 17 at 7:30 pm.

Andrew Borden and his wife Abby are found dead in Fall River, Massachusetts in August 1892. Their daughter Lizzie is the main suspect. The story goes that she wielded the axe that killed them—though she was tried and acquitted of the crime.

Lizzie became an American icon for her reputation as a dangerous madwoman. Set to bluegrass music and murder ballads, Bury The Hatchet fuses gallows humour with vaudevillian horror to reexamine this murder case, one of the most infamous in history.

Out Of The Forest Theatre is known for taking misremembered or forgotten stories, setting them to folk music, and using them to better understand modern society. This results in irreverently presented, knee-slapping historical theatre with a modern revisionist twist.

Tickets to Bury The Hatchet are available through the Anvil Theatre.

Post sponsored by Anvil Theatre.

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Bury the Hatchet tells the story of Lizzie Borden at the Anvil Theatre, October 17

U.K.–based Out of the Forest Theatre’s production fuses gallows humour and vaudevillian horror

Anvil Theatre presents Bury the Hatchet, a production by award-winning U.K. ensemble Out of the Forest Theatre, on October 17 at 7:30 pm.

Andrew Borden and his wife Abby are found dead in Fall River, Massachusetts in August 1892. Their daughter Lizzie is the main suspect. The story goes that she wielded the axe that killed them—though she was tried and acquitted of the crime.

Lizzie became an American icon for her reputation as a dangerous madwoman. Set to bluegrass music and murder ballads, Bury The Hatchet fuses gallows humour with vaudevillian horror to reexamine this murder case, one of the most infamous in history.

Out Of The Forest Theatre is known for taking misremembered or forgotten stories, setting them to folk music, and using them to better understand modern society. This results in irreverently presented, knee-slapping historical theatre with a modern revisionist twist.

Tickets to Bury The Hatchet are available through the Anvil Theatre.

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