THE COLOUR OF NONSENSE
Friday 12 March 2010
7.30 tickets £12/£10
www.newcut.org
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The Cut Arts Centre,
New Cut, Halesworth, IP19 8BY
At the studios of Splash, Line & Scuro, Cutting Edge Conceptualists, things haven’t been looking too hot of late. Then out of the blue comes a million pound commission for the very first ever completely genuine INVISIBLE ARTWORK.
With Forkbeard’s famed mix of visual trickery, film and outlandish story-lines The Colour of Nonsense takes us on a journey through the shifting borderlands between sense and nonsense, burrowing into the puzzle of why we see the way we see. As utinous cartoons throw the studios into animated confusion, only the Dong with a uminous Nose seems able to shed light into the chiaroscuro of chaos.
With nods at Edward Lear and The Emperor’s New Clothes, Forkbeard’s new comedy explores the highs and lows of creativity and paralysing indecision.
“Mesmerising magic”
The INDEPENDENT
“Ticklingly good”
The TIMES ****
“There is sparkle and wit in every element of a Forkbeard Fantasy production”
The GUARDIAN ****
“Tremendous and insane”
The EVENING STANDARD
About Forkbeard Fantasy
Forkbeard Fantasy is a theatre and film company who have been touring their shows, films, exhibitions and special events since the mid-1970’s. Their theatre shows combine comedy with special effects, wild mechanical sets, outsize characters and their unique trademark interactive mix of film, animation and cartoon live on stage. Their productions tour the length and breadth of the U.K. and they have appeared across the world from Argentina to Poland as well as all over Europe.
As well as their theatre shows, the company creates and tours elaborate interactive exhibitions, films and animated cartoons. Their hugely popular retrospective exhibition FORKBEARD: Architects of Fantasy enjoyed a two year run at London’s Theatre Museum attracting over 380,000 visitors.
Originally formed in 1974 by brothers Tim and Chris Britton, they were joined in 1980 by Penny Saunders and by Ed Jobling in 1987. Janice May, Deborah Harrison and Robin Thorburn are also now part of the Company.
Forkbeard stems from a long tradition of experimental visual performance called, in the seventies, Performance Art. They were inspired by Kantor, Beuys, The People Show, Phantom Captain and by such varied influences as The Goons, Lewis Carrol, Edward Lear, The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, Flann O’Brien, Tintin, Zappa, Beefheart and Beckett … just to name a few!
One of the main trademarks of a Forkbeard show is the interaction between film and live performance. It’s a technique they were pioneering and perfecting as far back as the mid 1970s. In its simplest form it’s the trick of merging from stage into screen and engaging in dialogue across what they call The Celluloid Divide.
This technique can now be widely seen on the stage.
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