JEEZUS!

Falling for Jesus is a mortal sin, but damn it feels good!

In 1990s Peru, a brutal military coup ushers in a decade of dictatorship under the rule of Alberto Fujimori. In the home of General José and his devoted wife María, altar boy Jesús prepares diligently for his first communion. But as the biggest day of his adolescent life approaches, the hot man on the cross makes him feel something…unholy.

Catholic guilt collides with unrepentant queerness in this sinful, heart-pounding mix of live music, dark humour, and Latin heat. If Bo Burnham, Bad Bunny, and Bertolt Brecht had a baby, this would be it.

JEEZUS! is the smash hit debut from award-winning migrant-led company Alpaqa. Bulging with new songs and Big Dick Energy, the show returns to London after taking the Edinburgh Fringe by storm – this time hotter, sweatier, and even more unhinged. 

This is the second coming - let's burn in hell!

Winner of the 2025 Untapped Award and The Stage Fringe Five

 

 

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Post-show Events

Post-show Confession: Queering Faith, Flesh, and the Divine
Wednesday 6th May, post-show

JEEZUS! co-creators Sergio Antonio Maggiolo and Guido Garcia Lueches sit down with Church of England priest Ro Morton in a panel chaired by Valerie Watson, unravelling the awkward, charged and tender impact of Catholic upbringings on queer bodies.

Join us as we talk doctrine and desire, shame and pleasure, and the institution’s long, uneasy relationship with the bodies it can’t contain.

 

Quotes & Reviews

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Press

★★★★★ "Deliciously subversive, wholly irreverent, multi-layered musical" The Stage

★★★★★ "Blisteringly good performances...joyful, even sentimental celebration of love" The Scotsman

★★★★★ “As camp as Christmas – mischievously blasphemous and heart-pounding.” Fringe Review

★★★★★ “Bold humour leaves the entire audience in stitches.” Three Weeks

★★★★★ “Blasphemy has never been so much fun!” Queer Guru

★★★★★ “A mad mix of faith, family and fabulousness.” The Recs

★★★★ "Heresy was never so heartfelt" WhatsOnStage

The Company

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Credits

Book - Sergio Antonio Maggiolo
Music & Lyrics - Sergio Antonio Maggiolo & Guido Garcia Lueches
Director & Co-Creator - Laura Killeen
Musical Director & Orchestrations - Tom Cagnoni
Production Designer - Carolina Rieckhof
Lighting Designer - Josephine Tremelling
Choreographer - Vivian Gabel
Dramaturg - Alejandro Clavier
Stage Manager & Operator - Rob Atkinson
Social Media Manager - El Salcedo
Producers - Guido Garcia Lueches & Sergio Antonio Maggiolo
Production Manager - Pete Rickards for eStage
PR - Diana Whitehead for Fourth Wall PR

Cast

Sergio Antonio Maggiolo
Guido Garcia Lueches
Tom Cagnoni

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Original development supported by The Rosemary Branch Theatre, Southwark Council & Brixton House.

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Company

Alpaqa is a migrant-led theatre company, creating work that uses raucous humour, high-camp, music and direct audience interaction to interrogate urgent political themes. Our practice blends in-the-room devising with poetic writing on current political topics, tempered by an improv and clowning background, fighting for change whilst being as silly as possible. Previous collaborations include: The Dirty Thirty, Playing Latinx & Eating Myself.

@jeezus.uk