DHA Clients in Edinburgh
Story Date: 1 August 2007
Award - winning Les Enfants Terribles return to the Edinburgh Festival for thier sixth succesive year with their biggest and boldest show to date.
Based upon a series of twisted tales by DHA client, Oliver Lansley, and illustrator/designer Sam Wyer, THE TERRIBLES INFANTS blends puppetry, live music, performanc, story telling and physicality into a highly sensory theatrical feast suitable for big kids and small grown-ups.
Also returning to Edinburgh this summer are The Trippplicate's. A group of three including DHA client, Morgan Lloyd Malcom, Katie Lyons (of THE GREEN WING) and Director, Verity Woolnough. Their time travelling comedy TIME TRIPPPERS written by Morgan Lloyd Malcom has been described as " Fast, Furious, and above all Fabulous!!"
GORMENGHAST, written by DHA client Mervyn Peake and adapted by John Constable will also be performed during the Festival this year. The story - Based on Mervyn Peake's cult trilogy and set in a vast other-worldly gothic castle from which there's no exit, Gormenghast describes the deadly struggle between a decadent, demented ancient family and Steerpike, the kitchen boy who looks at first like a romantic revolutionary but soon reveals his lethal appetite for power.
John Constable's adaptation distils Peake's epic fantasy into a shocking, darkly hilarious drama.
This promenade production keeps the audience moving in and around the non-stop action. Ancient rituals fuse with avant-garde dance moves. A shock-haired old retainer weaves through the crowd. An owl who used to be Lord of Gormenghast hoots from the gallery. In the centre of the auditorium two sweet, crazy, identical-twin murderesses in lace bloomers coo and titter in their cage. Voices boom ominously around the ramparts and music -electro or achingly romantic - punctuates the rapid dialogue.
This is the fourth project on which directors Mary Franklin and Esther Kent have collaborated - the most recent being a wickedly elegant version of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. Their hall-marks are a spectacularly unconventional use of theatrical space and a preference for the macabre, for wild comedy and haunting sadness.
The Edinburgh Festival will run from 10th August until 2nd September 2007