Shockheaded Peter

Old Town Theatre
4040 Twiggs Street San Diego

Dr. Caligari meets Dr. Seuss in Shockheaded Peter, the manic musical adaptation of a children's book so outrageously violent and hypnotically strange it could only be German. More surreal than Tim Burton and nastier than Lemony Snicket, Shockheaded Peter terrified generations of children into eating their soup and trimming their nails with parables of wayward children meeting comically grisly ends. In this show that's as sinister as it is silly, Shockheaded Peter's music box spins, spewing out stories of naughty children and misguided parents that deliver giggles and goosebumps at San Diego's Old Town Theatre.