DIGITAL PROJECTS
Throughout 2020, Mumblecrust has unfortunately been unable to run as it had previously, with a number of live performances canceled indefinitely. While we wait for these performances to be rescheduled and for the company to be able to run as usual, we have undertaken a number of digital projects.
THE FAIRY BATTLE OF BUCKLAND ST MARY
The Fairy Battle of Buckland St Mary is a fantasy audio adventure for the whole family! An epic battle wages between the Fairies and the Pixies. Magic and swordplay clash over fen and field, as, beneath the farmers’ very noses, tiny armies meet in deadly battle!
Award-Winning Mumblecrust Theatre weave a mystical tale of a young boy’s encounter with the fairy Prince, inspired by a little-known piece of local folklore, in a podcast to enjoy at home, or rambling over the Mendips or soaking up some sun on Kilve Beach!
Hold onto your hat, as Mumblecrust Theatre drag you through a dense thicket of Somerset Folklore!
Writer: Jonathan Leach
Performers: Anthony Burbridge & Katie Underhay
Editor/Sound Designer: Katie Underhay
Composer: Anthony Burbridge
Created as part of The Brewhouse Theatre Taunton’s HOMEBREW Scheme
THE HORNS ON MY HAT - SOFAVISION
SOFAVISION was a response to the tragic gap in this year’s song contest schedule and the unfilled need of artists to perform and audiences to be entertained. Strode Theatre, Tor Theatre and Viv Gordon Company came together to give 10 Somerset-based theatre companies the opportunity to perform in 2020’s SOFAVISION song contest.
Mumblecrust Theatre created the ‘band’ “Kool Aid” and wrote the wonderfully weird ode to Eurovision “The Horns on my Hat”, and were voted as the winners in a vote from the other artists and the general public!
“KOOL-AID, representing the People’s Federation of the United Republic of the States of the Kingdom of Loch Doon with their anthem ‘The Horns on My Hat’
Pop supergroup Kool-Aid was formed by Gãlïnå Winklemeser and Sòrên Pamplemousse (pictured) in the summer of 2002, in a dry cleaners. Commercial success arrived early, 2 months later, with their first hit “Take Your Face into my Window”, which broke all national sales records with a total of 37 sales.
‘The Horns on my Hat’ is an anthem for global peace, everlasting beauty and human compassion. The song was inspired by a late-night spiritual vision while making astroturf snow-angels in the front garden of Sòrên’s mobile home at 4am, post-kebab. It is dedicated to the brave men and women fighting head lice in schools across ‘Loch Doon. They have a heck of a bite.”
THE MAQUETTES' LAMENT - ONE MINUTE FESTIVAL
Originating from an idea by Ged Stephenson, the One Minute Theatre Festival of quick fire 60 second films have been committed to film by Somerset artists. You can see all the films on the BARN Theatre Somerset Youtube Channel. They have been commissioned collaboratively with Wassail Theatre during lockdown for the theatre-making community in Somerset to support each other in these challenging and surreal times. Responding quickly and creatively, people from across the theatre-making spectrum have used their imaginations to produce snapshots of what the world means to them right now. Many have been created using the simplest of means, on phones, tablets and laptops, often alone, and always safely at home. BARN is a collective theatre initiative, facilitated by Take Art, to support Somerset’s theatre-making sector.
Here at Mumblecrust Theatre HQ, we have a number of practice puppets or ‘maquettes’ made from cardboard, tape and string which have been used to develop ideas during the initial stages of our theatre productions.
These maquettes are hung in our studio, brought out rarely for workshops, but mostly abandoned and forgotten. For the One Minute Festival, we wanted to explore what these maquettes do while waiting to be used again, if ever, and we decided they’d probably be a bit bored and want to entertain themselves!
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