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# BRIGHTON FRINGE: Lachlan Werner’s ‘Voices of Evil’
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/brighton-fringe-lachlan-werners-voices-of-evil/
- Published: 2022-04-25T10:09:41.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-25T10:09:41.000Z
- Description: Ventriloquism as you’ve never seen before… a hilarious sell-out queer horror.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, Brighton Fringe, Brighton, Lachlan Werner, LGBTQ, queer

Horror, hilarity and astounding vocal tricks[ hit the seaside](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/lachlan-werner-voices-of-evil-157433/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) this spring as **Lachlan Werner**, comedy’s poof prince of puppets, brings his solo show to **Brighton Fringe** at **The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak** in Regency Square in May and June. Winner of the **Culture Connex x Brighton & Hove Pride Bursary**, **Voices Of Evil** is an hour of ventriloquism like you’ve never seen before. Expect *The Muppets* meets *The Exorcist*…

Lachlan Werner – ventriloquist and physical comedian – presents a joyful, queer subversion of the horror genre and traditional ventriloquist acts. In one of comedy’s freshest feats, this freak child – straight from the imagination of **Angela Carter** – juggles innovative voice tricks, clowning and deconstructive ventriloquism to seamlessly, simultaneously play three characters.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/fm_lach-5.jpg)

*Voices Of Evil* is a cartoonish hour where we meet Brew (a small squishy, ego-centric witch puppet) and her friend, Lachy (a ‘poof’, apparently a virgin and for some reason dressed like a choir boy). Together, they invite you to their occult ritual. But when Brew’s gimmicks release a sinister entity with a lust for destruction, the innocent Lachy will never be the same. The show has been thrilling London audiences since initial work-in-progress shows last summer, and made a bloody splash with a sold out run at **The Pleasance** for **London Horror Festival**, October 2021.

Lachlan says he made the show because “everyone thinks ventriloquists are creepy anyway, someone might as well make a horror show with it” He says, however, not to be too afraid – “it’s really silly. Like a *Simpsons* Halloween Special but with one skinny boy doing all the voices.”

But silly as it is, Lachlan “can’t wait to do it again. I get to play with ventriloquism and physical comedy in a way that feels so new. Plus I’m almost naked for, like, half the show. If that doesn’t get you there I don’t know what will.

“I love Brighton Fringe, I’ve been coming every year since I was 17, and I can’t wait to bring this evil queer puppet show to where it belongs!”

**For tickets, [CLICK HERE](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/lachlan-werner-voices-of-evil-157433/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**