Deadhouse True Crime Immersive Theatre

In person performance

RAZOR GANG WARS: The Rise of Tilly Devine & Kate Leigh.

Sydney 1929: Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh rule the underworld. The Razor Gang Wars erupt. Blood flows. Meet them in the crypt.

“Razor Gang Wars is a one-of-a-kind, not to be missed theatrical experience” Weekend Notes 3/9/22.

"Truly an historic Sydney experience that no one who calls Sydney home should miss." Sydney Scoop 3/9/22.

Last year 18 performances sold out by opening night!

RAZOR GANG WARS comes alive when you meet the characters, experience the events and battles of 1927-29 in the 200-year-old neo-gothic style crypt beneath St James' Church Sydney. A maximum audience of 30 will be guided through the crypt and 12 actors will play scenes before your eyes. An incredible experience.

Immerse yourself in the Crypt

For many centuries in the northern hemisphere morgues were called Deadhouses because bodies could not be buried in the winter when the ground was frozen, so the dead were stored in these Deadhouses until the thaw. Prior to 1972 our Deadhouse was the Sydney Morgue and Coroner’s Court located in lower George Street. Our tales are derived from the thousands of cases that passed through that grim and intriguing place.

Join us and immerse yourself in some classic Australian tales of true crime as you’re guided through scenes that unfold before you in the crypt under St James' Church, the two-hundred-year-old sandstone structure designed by early Sydney's renown convict architect, Francis Greenway. This is still a burial ground.