Wednesday 30 July 2008

Tech Week madness

Writing a blog entry in the middle of a tech week is madness! In fact, tech weeks in general are madness, especially when you are preparing a show that will open at the Traverse Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe in less than 2 weeks.

Slick is Vox Motus’ first outing a the Fringe, and although we’ve been plotting this since late 2006 the best laid plans of mice, men and puppets all go out the window when you actually consign yourself to a darkened theatre to put actors, sound and lighting together in what you hope will be a show that will make punters ‘ooh’, ‘aah’, laugh, gasp and squirm.

Slick is the story of the grim inhabitants of a desolate tenement who discover they are living above an untapped supply of crude oil. We are using ‘human puppets’ that we have been developing since January 2007. To get a good look at them you just need to pop onto You Tube. The characters include a depressed failed stockbroker and his Botox-injecting wife, a flasher with a fondness for young boys and a 104 year old compulsive liar with the type of medical conditions that would make a hardened medic blush. They all do their best to exploit the hell out of our protagonist – Little Malky Biggar.

At the moment we are busy pulling the world of these crazy characters together in time for their Edinburgh Fringe debut. It involves a lot of coffee, cries of ‘set back!’ and the type of long low whistles a builder might give before whacking you with an outrageous quote for your new skirting. Sometimes we even remember we are supposed to be creating a comedy and laugh.

Have to get back. My allocated time out of the dark hovel is up. The tech continues.

Candice
(Artisic Director @ Vox Motus)

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