Company Gavin Robertson/Bex Productions in association with makin projects present
2010 – A SPACE ODDITY
New Wolsey Theatre, Thursday 4 February at 7.45pm
Every space movie you’ve ever seen in an hour and bit from Company Gavin Robertson and Jonathan Bex.
For Chip Huston and his Commander this was an exciting voyage to Jupiter to investigate the strange signal emanating from its surface. But then they discover the ruins of the previous mission spacecraft in orbit around the planet. After losing contact with Earth, encountering strange forces on the ship, and battling its seemingly paranoid and unhelpful computer, their doomed mission takes on a whole new direction … while the fate of the World hangs in the balance…
With influences ranging from 2001 and Sunshine to Armageddon via Alien this dynamic and ridiculous comic homage to space movies is overly dramatic, packed full of clichés and silly from start to finish - a cartoon movie for the theatre!
Featuring a cast of two, a stirring soundtrack and overuse of American accents!
“Comedy on an epic scale” The Scotsman
“You’ll believe an actor can fly!” bestofthefest.co.uk
Company Gavin Robertson has been touring internationally since 1997, including performances in Australia, Japan, Brazil and Europe, as well as Africa and the USA and has previously presented Spittoon, The Six Sided Man and I Am… Who Am I? at the New Wolsey Theatre. Prior to forming CoGR, Gavin had a successful partnership with Andrew Dawson, again touring nationally and internationally as MTP, most famously creating, and performing in, their cult comedy, THUNDERBIRDS F.A.B which has now had six separate West End Seasons between 1989 and 2002.
Spittoon was a parody and homage to 'The Western' in all its forms, bringing together the spaghetti versions of Sergio Leone as well as classic John Wayne and John Ford material in one production.
“like watching a comic strip come to life, complete with sound effects. Drawing all the time on the imagination of the audience the story romps along with great one-liners and mimed sketches that have the audience howling… an inventive, amusing and entertaining evening” The Stage on Spittoon
The Six Sided Man tells the story of a Psychiatrist who decides to live his life strictly according to the dictates of the dice, to which he gives options. Of course, as time goes by the options become ever more daring until he finally commits murder. Gavin wrote the script as a two-hander set in the Psychiatrist's office, so the audience never really knew by the end if the events were real or if the two characters in the office were role-playing.
The Six Sided Man Promotional Reel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mhUlO2JIA8
"novel and intriguing - a seductive package" The Guardian
"A slick, subtle show - compulsive viewing." Liverpool Daily Post
I Am… Who Am I? was commissioned by The New Wolsey Theatre and played four venues early in 2003.The New Wolsey itself premiered the show, and the production then spent a week each at The Gardner Centre in Brighton, Eastbourne College, East Sussex and Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells in Kent. The show tells the true story of a man without a memory, the woman who loves him and the inexplicable foibles of memory loss.
"By turns this is both frightening and funny. You don't really know whether to laugh or cry. And it's gripping because Ray Pearson (the protagonist) could be any one of us at any time. It is that rare thing - a stage documentary tightly wrapped in drama" EADT
www.gavinrobertson.com
Tickets (£8.50 to £13.50) to see 2010: Space Oddity at the New Wolsey on Thursday 4 February can be booked online at www.wolseytheatre.co.uk or by calling the New Wolsey Box Office on 01473 295900.