10 Quick Qs – Constantinople – Barnie Duncan
A quote/moment that stands out from your show?
An epic 9 minute mime nightclub scene involving history’s first house DJ, The Emperor Constantine, pepper abuse, and Handel.
A quote/moment that stands out from your show?
An epic 9 minute mime nightclub scene involving history’s first house DJ, The Emperor Constantine, pepper abuse, and Handel.
7. If you could put on (or be in) any show/band in the world, which one would it be?
March 17, 1904, London Hippodrome. Houdini did the most difficult escape of his career, the mirror cuffs. We’d go back and do that. Or at least help out.
I wanna get in Freddie Mercury’s pants. Like now.
Heath Franklin’s not a one trick pony. And if you say he is, he’ll cut your f**king ears off.
If you like your cabaret sophisticated, conservative and beautiful – then this is not the show for you.
On the other hand, if you like your cabaret dirty, crass, sexual and ridiculously funny, then this is definitely the show for you.
While he looks like he makes it all up as he goes along, the special effects in the show clearly show the amount of hard work that goes into a production like this.
His extremely charming storytelling style brings out your inner kid who hangs on to every word and is dazzled by every trick.
Before I die, I want to project shadow puppets onto the moon, so that you can see them from the Earth. If there is a production out there planning to do work on the moon, I’d like them to call me.
Oh the humble organ – who would have thought that a man stuck in a time warp with a 100% polyester Safari suit could have made it kind of cool? But somehow, Barry Morgan’s World of Organs makes me feel like bringing the old dusty organ out and trying Barry’s signature one-finger method for myself.
In Flipside Circus’ forty-five minute acrobatic extravaganza, That Way, everything is about the chase.
What begins as a minor scuffle, results in ‘the longest chase scene ever witnessed’.
So we sent our 10 Quick Qs to these kids and boy did we received some enthusiastic answers – ALL-CAPS and all. Also, can I point out, one of these kids wants to be a fire truck!
Apparently, due to the mysterious particle accelerator experiments going on underground at the Large Hadron Collider project near Geneva, we can throw what we know about perspective out the window.
Left is no longer left, right is not right, and theatre is no longer a coherent narrative with motivations driving action.
You would be forgiven for thinking the circus was in town. But it practically is. With an array of theatre, comedy and puppetry shows on offer, your newfound arty-farty self won’t know what to choose.