On a pan-global Tour of International Climate Change Conferences, the fabulous Brittonioni Brothers chew on the hot potato mishmash of Global Warming.
Run entirely by horse power and hot air, with special guests Mammon and Pan, and Live Music by The Lotus Pedals (of HOMELIFE fame), the brilliantly brylcremed brothers zoom us from Outer Space to the Inner Atom as they explore their subject through such apocalyptic topics as the Evolution of The Carbon Weevil, the FairyAngel Conundrum and the coming of the new Plastic-ene Era.
Forkbeard’s much-loved surreal comedy, spectacle and invention, film and cartoon combine with the Brittonioni’s astonishing apparatus, fabulous 3-D projections, and ultra-slick smoothy-pant presentation to provide a hot night out on the tiles.
INVISIBLE BONFIRES, Forkbeard’s newest show, is based on their RSC Complete Works commission “Rough Magyck” performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon last year.
“Totally surreal, bewilderingly creative and about the most mindbendingly hilarious production I have witnessed. This was easily one of the highlights of not just the short Cube season but the whole Complete Works calendar.”Stratford Observer (“Rough Magyck”)
“Forkbeard’s flickering mixture of celluloid and theatre combines technical virtuosity with utter screaming mayhem… sheer inventive wizardry” The Independent (“Fall of The House of Usherettes”)
“Whatever they’re on should be made available on the National Health.” The Scotsman
Over the next year and a half, and as part of the INVISIBLE BONFIRES project, we are creating a new interactive (hands-on) EXHIBITION for gallery spaces and museums.
FORKBEARD FANTASY Exhibitions (for those who haven’t experienced one) are generally set in a specially created environment -the atmosphere of a film laboratory or gadget-maker’s studio for instance- with moving parts operated by the visitors or set off by pressure mats or movement. We use film-loops, peep-show boxes (with intricate moving environments you can envelope yourself in via headphones), animated sculptures you can operate with strings, handles, levers and so on, short films and cartoons and numerous illustrations and pictures.
Much like FF’s live theatre shows, our Exhibitions are always highly entertaining, full of colour and spectacle, working parts, surround-sound, moving image and humour. People come back for more …often over and over again.
Thanks to CarbonSense and Dr Stephan Harding for additional scientific advice on the INVISIBLE BONFIRES project.