Assembly George Square Theatre Omnitorium
22:30 (23:30) 3-28 Aug (Not 16, 22)
You were raised to believe anything was possible. To never to settle for second best. Follow your heart. Now it's time to live the dream and you can't even get an interview for an unpaid internship.
From the depths of somewhere dark and unpleasant, two distorted freaks scamper to the surface ready to hold a mirror up to your paltry existence. The frivolous frailty of your fragile life. Face your fears, laugh at your weaknesses. Skip into the night, lighter, unburdened. Witness our beautiful, disgusting bouffon double act. An exhilarating, hilariously confrontational satire on the human condition.
What was the inspiration for this performance?
Essentially we wanted to put on
lots of makeup and maternity tights, stuff foam into the maternity tights
and then prance about. We've been looking for reasons to justify this since
that eureka moment.
Have we found said
reasons?
You'll have to come and see the
show.
How did you go about gathering the team for it?
We both live quite near each
other and there's a good pub in between. We had worked together hither and
thither previously and not fallen out to an irreparable extent. Thus it
seemed like a goer.
How did you become interested in making performance?
Did poorly at school, always
quite liked showing off. You don't need A-Levels to go to Drama school.
Boom.
Was your process typical of the way that you make a performance?
Largely yes. We both
work in slightly different ways though we both drink a lot of tea.
I think we have a lot of common ground but have taken a leap with
this show. Improvisation is a big part of both of our processes. However,
allowing that space for the unexpected on stage is something we've really run
with this time. Not trying to mitigate against the show going
somewhere unexpected is something we were both keen to push.
What do you hope that the audience will experience?
Conflict. By that we mean a
conflict of desires. The desire to stay and experience it and the desire to run
away.
What strategies did you consider towards shaping this audience
experience?
Bribery and inducements,
psychological experiments, torture techniques (no really).
n.b. not the really bad torture
the key stage 1 kind of stuff. Sensory deprivation, confusion that sort of
thing.
Do you see your work within any particular tradition?
Absolutely. Bouffon and the
tradition of mockery. The role of the fool to make us question how we live our
lives.
Within that tradition we are
looking for how we do that in today's world.
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