Review – Morgan & West: Time Travelling Magicians
Morgan and West are time travellers. But they’re not just your ordinary run-of-the-mill temporal passengers, no ma’am, they are also spiffing magicians.
Morgan and West are time travellers. But they’re not just your ordinary run-of-the-mill temporal passengers, no ma’am, they are also spiffing magicians.
If all science was taught this way at school, maybe I’d be working for NASA today.
While the concept isn’t completely unheard of, theatre in the dark is still a rarely used technique. And even rarer still is the correct execution. But under Martha Lott’s direction, this performance is completely, even unnaturally so, in the dark.
What happens when a couple of actors/comedians/DJs and all round fun guys decide to make a show about the history of Constantinople? Well, you get 60 minutes of absurdist theatre that’ll leave you in stitches and sore cheeks from laughing too much.
Amuse-Bouche has brilliant production values. There’s multiple screens, different camera angles and funny and interactive games. The band is also very good with their timing. This show almost feels like a talk show on TV.
Heckler can safely say that we were out-heckled by the people in this audience – the kids! They just loved Dr. Brown.
Soap is an eclectic array of circus tricks, gymnastics and a lot of fun. What the performers can do is downright astounding and will challenge everything you believe about what the human body is capable of.
Imagine a small child at play in his room pretending to be a squid, jumping from one whimsical adventure to the next. Now swap that small child with a towering, bearded actor, and you have Squidboy.
Using a variety of performance mediums in his highly energetic show, Simon tries to show his love for all things mathematical, and keeps the entertainment going using iconic musical hits such as Baby Got Maths.
The singing is just amazing. The humour is fantastic – each of the four actors brings something different to the table – they are all incredibly talented and work perfectly together. You’ll probably fall in love with these curious creatures, the Lovebirds, as they take you on their journey of love and well, sex.
Shakespeare and Greek tragedy rolled into one and spat back out in the reality of Glasgow gang life and lingo.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
We have a vision to cultivate a new generation of artists and audiences, by producing extraordinary work in unusual locations. So when we’ve grown up, we want to be doing that, all the time.
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.
2. Describe your show Twitter style, 140 characters or less.
An oddly charming squid fills the stage with imaginary friends, flora and fauna until the tentacles of his mind get tangled.
2. Describe your show Twitter style, 140 characters or less.
A stark, stylised theatrical encounter with the emotional and social realities of knife crime – delivered via bruisingly poetic monologues.