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NEW FOR 2010
The Cabaret of Dr. Caligari (show)
A brand new show from Artizani commissioned by Lakes Alive
The mysterious Dr Caligari presents his travelling cabinet of curiosities. Freaks, oddities, eccentrics and acrobats are conjured out of thin air to entertain, but once out of the box, refuse to disappear! The house band plays its hypnotic blend of music to stir the heart and send your feet leaping up to dance. The cabaret accelerates towards an extraordinary revolt in which performers and spectators turn on the twisted Caligari in a spectacular finale.
The house band can end the day with a fusion Klezmer-Celidh and by arrangement the enormous, visually stunning inflatable set and P.A. can also be used as the focus for a whole days events – hosting guest acts and creating a real impact in a park or large urban space.
Desert Island Discs (show)
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A tropical island, a gramophone, flotsam, jetsam and one hapless castaway. 20 years pass in 40 minutes as records spin and rescue never comes, then as the island gives up its secret, the show ends in a beautifully surreal, spectacular finale.
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The show happens on a small stage complete with two palm trees which double as hammock anchors and slackrope ends. Kept on the island by a shark in the audience, our castaway makes friends with Larry, a lobster, and struggles to survive. Every time he retires to his hammock he wakes up years later with a longer and longer beard, clothes more dishevelled and with another crazy plan. Eventually, after walking an impossibly wobbly rope between the trees, he discovers treasure and wakes Larry’s big sister. As the twenty foot high inflatable lobster emerges spectacularly through the stage, he finally escapes in the most unlikely of helicopter rescues!
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.
“James’ Lobster Show was a great talking point, and he worked tirelessly on a very hot day with his energetic manner” Samantha Tavernor, Events Development Manager, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
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