10 Quick Qs – Heath Franklin

1. What, where, when and how much?

Feb 28 Salisbury Secret Garden – Hoyts Salisbury
March 2nd – 9th Garden of Unearthly Delights

2. Describe your show Twitter style, 140 characters or less:

Chopper realises he has an anger problem and then gets angry about that.

3. A quote/moment that stands out from your show?

There is a bit in it that will blow your mind. You’ll know it when you see it. Come and see the show and then see if the bit that blew your mind was the same bit that blew your friends mind.

4. Is heckling allowed?

I will cut you.
I’ve called thousands of people fuckwits all over the world and now I just want to do the show I wrote.

5. What is your role in the show?

I am in the role of Chopper. My name is Chopper. Tonight I will be playing loveable foul mouthed Chopper. You wish I was your uncle but not your dad.

6. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Excavator operator. Zen in the cab of a 36 ton machine. Shaping the Earth.

7. If you could put on (or be in) any show/band in the world, which one would it be?

I wanted to do live versions of ‘The Young Ones’.

8. Why would someone not come see your show?

Because they got trapped in their house after their fridge fell on them.
Or because they hate fun and they are busy running around popping balloons and being offended by things that don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
But MOSTLY because they are so drunk that they wouldn’t enjoy or remember it anyway. Even if you already bought tickets and then you got really drunk maybe just stay out because you’d probably have more fun fighting a letterbox or weeing on a stranger somewhere else.

9. In your opinion, what is the worst show/movie you’ve ever seen and why?

The remake of Robocop is horrible. It made the protagonist seem like a marketing exercise with a blown up passenger. Any sequel/reboot that is worse than the original whose plot actually works to diminish the importance of the original is junk. This list includes but is not exclusive to
Matrix 2 & 3
Terminator 3
Predators
and of course
Star Wars 1-3

10. Besides your show, what’s your pick for the Fringe/Garden?

Captain Funpants
Harley Breen
Demi Lardner
Tubular Bells for Two (saw this in Edinburgh. AMAZING)
Adrienne Truscott
Felicity Ward aka Wardy aka Bophose
and then there will also be some stuff I’ve never heard of that will blow my mind too.