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Artizani have a wide range of stilted characters including giant cricketers, John Travoltas, Chicago Gangsters and even Frankenstein's Monster.
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Desert Island Discs
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Desert Island Discs comes in three formats:
1. A 40 minutes full stage show. The most popular and spectacular show involves an Island shaped stage with two palm trees set at jaunty angles on either side. The show is performed to music and loaded with visual gags. In a grand finale of tightropes and buried treasure, the Castaway unwittingly invokes the curse of the claw and his island paradise is transformed as an angry twenty foot high lobster emerges from the sand.
2. A 30 minute sand installation. In this version, an island is created with 10-12 tonnes of playsand which supports the palm trees. If you want a wonderfully surreal installation this is for you - it really makes any site memorably different and turns any urban environment into the seaside for a day. The inflatable lobster is not available with this show.
3. Street Show. Using the stage from the full show, this version is more compact and intimate, but does not have a technician/performer or inflatable. The rest of the show remains very similar without the elements created by the technician and the spectacular finale.
The Cherubs
Painted gold from head to toe and unaware of humiliation or the cold, two angels take to the street on golden scooters innocently interacting and spreading divine mayhem.
Punt!
Two Oxbridge undergrads are off for a relaxing punt. Blissfully unaware of reality and physics, the boat drifts down busy streets and they regale and serenade the public.
Lifeboat
Following on the success of Punt! This “Street Boat” is based on an 8ft clinker-built skiff. The show extends the fantastically surreal images of Punt! and carries two hilarious and eccentric characters into your event. The shipwrecked Captain and Boatswain’s mate have been adrift since 1786 and are more than a little confused! Batten down the hatches as we re-live every seafaring cliché from Treasure Island to Moby Dick.
Farmer Giles
Solo walkabout who leans over his five bar gate and gives advice on any subject from farming (about which he knows little) to philosophy (about which he knows less). The image in a busy street is gently surreal, while the repartee is quick witted and hilarious. This animation can be static and play to passers-by, or can move and do a series of cameos. The gate is on wheels and moves easily.
Syrovi Show
Artizani also present a solo show Syrovy. Inspired by the comic routines of Buster Keaton, Harpo Marx, Gene Kelly and Neil Armstrong which is both spectacular and meticulously detailed.
Revolution Show
Artizani presents a comic and touching epic of passionate doomed love set on an ever changing, revolving carousel. The story is a zany romantic comedy featuring two starcrossed and unsuspecting lovers. Tormented and serenaded by a narrator poet perched on a bike suspended above the set and guided by a grumbling technician, our lovers hop on to the Merry-Go-Round of love to find they can’t get off until they’ve experienced all the ecstasies of infatuation and the furies of jealousy. A big show with a lovely set and a spectacular finale in the Busby Berkeley style.
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Desert Island Discs was everything that is good and right in street theatre. …the story of a castaway who starts the show determined to keep up standards …Dressed properly for dinner, with stiff upper lip, he is keen to show that he can tame the wild. But of course nature bites back ...classic physical clowning that is on a direct line of descent from Keaton and Chaplin…he makes it look like anyone could do it, but in truth few can perform with such assurance, or entertain so well, in the public space. Review: Total Theatre Magazine
(Syrovy) “...a beautifully constructed and executed solo show by James Macpherson that combines silent-movie clowning, acrobatics and slackrope walking to explore one man’s ambivalent relationship with everyday objects.” Total Theatre Magazine
“The reports I got back were rapturous, both from the staff and from conversations with the public” Jonathan Holloway, former Festival Director, The Royal National Theatre