dance/physical theatre feature
QQ: Not Man Apart
The Not Man Apart physical theatre ensemble answer the ThreeWeeks Quick Quiz
1. What is your 2008 show all about?
A hero, Pericles, searching for love, thwarted by the seas, vengeful rulers and three acrobatic bald fates, wins the hand of a zany princess, loses her in childbirth, and then his daughter, caught by pirates, is sold to a wenchless whorehouse and in the end all are spectacularly reunited through the vision of a whimsical goddess.
2. Why should we come and see it?
Shakespeare’s greatest high seas adventure told with explosive sex appeal and athletic virtuosity. Pericles Redux, the love-child of Grotowski and Monty Python will send audiences reeling from a raucus world of absurdity to thigh-quivering acts of passion.
3. If your show was an olympic sport, what would it be and why?
High Dive- because we plunge headfirst into the deep-end of radical theatricality with a satisfying array of gender-bending double somersaults, airborne swashbuckling flips and one momentous twist to finish.
4. What are you most looking forward to about this year's Festival?
Advertising our show naked in sandwich boards on hot days.
5. What are you least looking forward to about this year's Festival?
Advertising our show naked in sandwich boards on cold days.
6. What advice would you have for someone trying to navigate the Fringe?
Start with a scotch, go see Pericles Redux, buy drinks for cast of Pericles Redux, sleep with cast of Pericles Redux, wake up, drink a scotch, bring five friends to Pericles Redux, repeat.
7. What advice would you have for someone trying to survive the Fringe?
Don’t believe other shows’ hype; only Pericles Redux transports you to another world of death-defying, heart-pounding, faith-shaking, earth-shattering, sex-life-advancing, other-theater-annihilating, good family fun!
8. Describe your show in three words
Wild, epic parfait!
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The Not Man Apart physical theatre ensemble performed 'Pericles Redux' at the Pleasance Courtyard.
published: Oct-2008
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