We Can Stay All Day*
For three days Charlie and Vicky recorded sounds at the zoo - sounds of animals and the people that look at them: interviews with bewildered toddlers, the fitful slumber of a Pot-bellied Pig, the bad-behaviour of raucous grown-ups. Zoo life…
...Prepare to be befuddled as you feast your eyes on the finest shadow-puppets in the west!
“A King is history’s slave. History, that is the unconscious swarm-life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of Kings as a tool for its own purposes.” -Tolstoy
A flitting, filmic picture of life during the 16th and 17th century, focusing on the ordeals of the royal court, some of the most astonishing, frightening events that ever took place on British shores. Using the premise of Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, where the fairy Puck gives children the power to understand the hidden histories of their land, The Clockwork Moth use the ethereal magic of shadow-play to describe the folly, paranoia and dark chaos of this period, and the arresting individuals that framed it through their very different lives. [Read More...]
Beastly Ever After (long-term work in progress)
Beauty has won the heart of her beast. A retelling of a most unsatisfactory tale.
A girl falls in love with a beast and despite convention, that is just the way she loves him, her beast.
An exploration of how two very different people find happiness in the everyday events of their lives: how they fall in love and why.
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Undershorts (work in progress throughout 2012)
A showcase of short pieces, the result of experiments and games, with a few wild imaginings thrown in. A pure exploration of the joy of using different media to create stories and performances.
Pieces currently include: The Birth of Santa Klaus: A Toy Theatre Fable; a 'watch with mother' performance with Murple and her disturbingly magical garden; a diorama of an old man sleeping by the two-bar-fire, and the tragic tale of a Victorian scientist who coaxes an unsuspecting volunteer to test his new machine.