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.
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.
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.
The Porcelain Punch Travelling Medicine Show is a nice concept: a send-up of an old-time travelling caravan that cons people into buying a bottle of Porcelain Punch, a shonky cure-all elixir. A number of circus and cabaret acts are performed to demonstrate the “miraculous” powers of the medicine, which can allegedly make people beautiful, healthy, or gain superhuman strength.
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.
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.
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!
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