Projects
Well, we’re well on our way with our Darwin project. We’ve done some intensive research and development and are chuffed to bits that we’ve been given the thumbs up from our friends at the Arts Council to go on a national tour in October / November.
So… Mick and I are in the thinking and talking stage of things, working out how to meld the plethora of ideas we have into a swift, funny and moving 75 min performance. It’s going to be a great time for us, and we hope you can join us to see the fruits of our… efforts!
The last project we did was Frog Man. It was a cracker! Honest. This was our very first show, it premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006. Neither of us had ever been to the festival before so we learned a great deal about it rather quickly! Even though our venue turned out to be a long way from the centre we managed to get an audience built up and we were well reviewed, so in the end it was a positive outcome, but more than all that the sun shone in Edinburgh in 2006 and we all had a very good time!
Our friends are re-staging the production for this year’s festival, but Mick and I are too busy to be there, so wish them all the best and call in to see them if you get a chance. They are at the Zoo venue - I’ll put the details up when I have them!
Please select one of the projects from the menu on the right or see our reviews page for the coverage Frog man received.
Enjoy!
FROG MAN 2006/ 7
“Wonderfully sardonic pitch-black comedy. Witty one-liners abound throughout… Glorious and innovative - left me breathless”
Three Weeks Magazine
From a suburban nightmare to sub aquatic bliss - this is a story of love, bullying and the turgid waters of domestic life. It begins one fateful afternoon down by the canal when Kenny and Kelly, two ordinary kids, steal Adrian Dunfor’s kite and their game goes horribly wrong…
What did happen to poor Adrian? Oh, how his poor mother cried and cried, even though she knew he was rubbish really…
Now Kenny is a police frogman and Kelly has dreadful asthma. They live at 46 Sunnybrook Meadow and drive a 4×4 in case anyone tries to murder them on the way to the supermarket. But that afternoon is with them still…
Frog Man was really about guilt, and relationships and though it was very funny it had a very dark heart. It was the story of two children who killed another boy, and then were bound together throughout their lives by this guilty awful secret. They develop a rapport based on perfection and goodness, each is the others Prince /Princess figure. But as the stifling nature of their lives, lies and deceits overwhelm them, she seeks solace through dancing. But he won’t let her dance because of her dreadful asthma. But you see, she doesn’t actually have asthma. She has lied all along about her asthma, inventing it as a means of avoiding difficult questions surrounding the poor boy’s death all that time ago. And so lies become truth. The charade becomes the reality. And each is stuck in the time loop of that terrible event. Then one day a neighbour calls in, Malcolm Glazebrook from over the road, he wears glasses, and at last Kelly has a dancing partner! A series of events unfold that mean Kenny and Kelly can continue their idyllic charade no longer. Kenny becomes the Prince who turns into a frog, literally, on stage.
The show then went on a short tour in 2007 which was very important as it helped us establish contact with some venues locally and beyond.
