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)
Wednesday 30 July 2008
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Friday 4 July 2008
The Final Countdown
It's been manic here at Vox Motus HQ over the last few months as we prepare for the launch of our new show, Slick.
SLICK has been the obsession of Artistic Directors Jamie and Candice since one caffeine fuelled afternoon back in 2006 when they came up with the story of a cat that survives among the bizarre inhabitants of a destitue tenement. The cat has now morphed into a nine year old boy called Malcolm Biggar but the other inhabitants are no less bizarre! The script has been developed along with Stephen Greenhorn (creator of River City and writer for Doctor Who) and is Vox Motus’ first production involving puppetry.
We have developed a concept that marries puppet bodies with human faces creating a world that exists somewhere between cartoons, puppet theatre and a magic show . The result is a gloriously lunatic world that we think people will remember long after they've left the theatre.
We'll have some more information on the genesis of the play over the next few weeks, but here's a rundown of the show tour dates:
Slick tour dates
SLICK has been the obsession of Artistic Directors Jamie and Candice since one caffeine fuelled afternoon back in 2006 when they came up with the story of a cat that survives among the bizarre inhabitants of a destitue tenement. The cat has now morphed into a nine year old boy called Malcolm Biggar but the other inhabitants are no less bizarre! The script has been developed along with Stephen Greenhorn (creator of River City and writer for Doctor Who) and is Vox Motus’ first production involving puppetry.
We have developed a concept that marries puppet bodies with human faces creating a world that exists somewhere between cartoons, puppet theatre and a magic show . The result is a gloriously lunatic world that we think people will remember long after they've left the theatre.
We'll have some more information on the genesis of the play over the next few weeks, but here's a rundown of the show tour dates:
Slick tour dates
- Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: 12th - 24th August
- Eden Court Theatre, Inverness: 29th - 30th August
- Rutherglen Town Hall, Rutherglen: 9th September
- Byre Theatre, St Andrews: 11th September
- Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock: 12th September
- Tron Theatre, Glasgow: 16th - 20th September
- Lemon Tree, Aberdeen: 23rd - 24th September
- Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling: 26th - 27th September
Wednesday 2 July 2008
Welcome!
Welcome to the new Vox Motus blog!
We plan to bring you the latest from the around the world of Vox Motus - news, gossip, photos and whatever else we feel like on the day.
You can find out lots more about us over on our main website, on Facebook or on MySpace (please be our friend!) - we look forward to seeing you wherever you end up!
Most importantly we'd like you come and see us at a theatre near you sometime soon. While we love the world of the interweb, we're here to stage unique, exciting, dynamic and hopefully inspiring plays and we need people like you to support us (and Little Malcolm Biggar)...
See you soon and please let us know what you think of the blog!
Candice, Jamie and Little Malcy
We plan to bring you the latest from the around the world of Vox Motus - news, gossip, photos and whatever else we feel like on the day.
You can find out lots more about us over on our main website, on Facebook or on MySpace (please be our friend!) - we look forward to seeing you wherever you end up!
Most importantly we'd like you come and see us at a theatre near you sometime soon. While we love the world of the interweb, we're here to stage unique, exciting, dynamic and hopefully inspiring plays and we need people like you to support us (and Little Malcolm Biggar)...
See you soon and please let us know what you think of the blog!
Candice, Jamie and Little Malcy
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