Welcome to Pendulums, purveyors of everything you’ve ever wanted and more. But everything has a price…what are you willing to pay?

Inspired by The Elves and the Shoemaker Maison Foo entice audiences to join them on a darkly comic and shameless shopping experience like no other, that treads that fine line between greed and necessity, raising the question ‘how far will we go to make ourselves happy?’ This desperate tale of slavery and greed, told with humour, intimacy and charm uses an inventive blend of storytelling, live music, clowning and puppetry to seek the answer. The show is coming to Liverpool’s Unity Theatre on Thursday 30th October at 8pm.

Pendulums Bargain Emporium is set in a shop where happiness and success are just one simple transaction away. The story focuses on the greedy wife of the shoemaker, who has built her empire out of the shoemaker’s desperate and desolate last piece of leather but in an empire full of objects that claim to bring happiness, can the wife ever truly be happy herself?

Maison Foo first came to national attention with their highly acclaimed sell out show Memoirs Of A Biscuit Tin at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They took the show on an extensive UK tour through 2011 and 2012 to further critical acclaim and sold out notices.

Pendulums Bargain Emporium is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Originally commissioned by Derby Theatre, LOV (Lincolnshire One Venues) and Déda, supported by Hatch and The Castle Wellingborough.

It is suitable for ages 14+ www.maisonfoo.co.uk

Tickets for Pendulums Bargain Emporium are priced at £10 with concessions available at £8. Tickets are available from the Unity Theatre Box office on Hope Street, by telephone on 0844 8732888 or online at www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk