QUIRKY performance art returns to Uley this autumn, when Maison Foo brings Pendulums Bargain Emporium to the Prema Arts Centre.

Describing itself as a 'Greedy Fairytale for Grown ups,' this is a witty and original new shop-set show 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.

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 has been delighting audiences and tickling their imaginations since 2007 with their trademark mischievous new theatre, incorporating an enchanting mix of visual/physical theatre, puppetry, object manipulation and clowning. This exciting East Midlands based company charmingly challenge audiences by devising intriguing and inventive high quality theatre.

Suitable for ages 14+ , the show is coming to Prema Arts Centre, Uley, on Saturday ,11 October at 8pm. For more details visit www.prema.org.uk