In what's definitely becoming something of a Southwark Playhouse specialty, it's
another kitsch American musical based on an unlikely source - this time the cult
1980s Troma horror movie by Lloyd Kaufman (who was in tonight's audience and got a
shout-out from the cast,)
The Toxic Avenger. Tromaville, New Jersey is the
world's toxic waste capital, thanks to the corrupt Mayor (Lizzii Hills) who secretly
owns the company dumping mysterious green sludge everywhere. When nerdy
environmental activist Melvin Ferd the Third (Mark Anderson) finds out what she's
been up to, the Mayor has her goons drown him in a vat of toxic waste. But instead
of killing him it transforms him into a deformed, smelly but super-strong monster,
and as The Toxic Avenger - or Toxie to his girlfriend, the blind librarian Sarah
(Hannah Grover) - he goes on a violent rampage to clean up Tromaville.
