fish clay perspex
- COMPANY: Faulty Optic VENUE: Jacksons Lane DATES: Fri 30 & Sat 31 October TIMES: 8pm nightly PRICES: £12.50 / £10.50 conc
World renowned for its haunting tales, visual theatre, strange animated figures and dark humour, Faulty Optic presents this eccentric, droll and compassionate new production…
In this simple, small-scale, low technology piece, Faulty Optic manipulates puppets, miniature and armless pointy-footed figures, clay, lagging, pens and plastic.
Fish Clay Perspex is a series of short character studies and incidences based upon chance, futility, expectation, doubt and the turmoil caused by the flailings and failings of the human mind. Highlights include falling beasts, battered clay, bendy legs, bad drawing, frantic scribbling and the comic scrabbling of a simple, guileless duo.
Faulty Optic create worlds unique to the puppet characters which inhabit them. Since they began in 1987 they have broken down their audience's concept of puppetry by producing an entertaining mixture of non-verbal drama, surreal imagery, mechanical theatre and animated objects and figures.
