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Matthew Sharp & Peter M.Wyer.
A one-man operatic thriller.
Johnny's been kidnapped, the Black Camel of Takrilakastan has shown up and a mysterious pair of goggles has opened a portal to another world. Midnight is fast approaching and the chase is on to rescue Johnny.
Johnny’s Midnight Goggles is a mind-and genre-melting explosion of story-telling, ravishing singing, virtuoso cello-playing and sonic wizardry – Tim Burton meets John Adams, Arnold Schwarzenegger meets Edith Piaf, Philip Pullman meets Paganini.
Witty, nail-biting and entrancing music theatre with goggles on!
SharpWire are international cellist/singer/theatre performer, Matthew Sharp and transatlantic composer/writer, Pete M Wyer. Their startlingly original, spellbinding excursions into uncharted music theatre territory have been acclaimed around the world. Ravishing music, engaging and entrancing narrative, sonic and visual wizardry and virtuoso performance are touchstones of their work so far.
Collectively, Matthew Sharp and Pete M Wyer have worked with the BBC, ENO, Opera North, National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Young Vic, Lincoln Center, RPO, LPO, Sony, Naxos, Avie and Thirsty Ear Records, Carol Brown, Jessica Lang, Miro Dance Theatre, Phyllida Lloyd, Tim Supple, John Keane and Brian Eno, amongst many others.
This is their third show.
www.sharpwire.org
REVIEWS
Johnny’s Midnight Goggles: The Holy Grail Of The Brighton Festival Season
In every festival there is the ‘one’, the Holy Grail, the great find of the whole season and in the case of this year’s mainstream festival it is ‘Johnny’s Midnight Goggles’ by Sharpwire.
This small piece of theatrical genius is as funny and wonderful as anything I have seen in a very long time…magical, comedic and firmly rooted in a dramatic context.
We are taken on a journey into a dark and wonderful place where the evil that controls its slave inhabitants is threatening to spill out and into our own existence.
Try as I might, I cannot even begin to scratch the surface in this review of how clever and funny this show really is.
If magical glasses, seeing the future in French onion soup, huge turtle guards, strange black camels and magical lands hidden carefully in the south of France are your thing (Oh, and magic goggles) then this is the one for you. If not, then get yourself an imagination.
Buy, steal, beg and queue to get a ticket to this show!
The Brighton Magazine on Johnny’s Midnight Goggles, 13th may 2008
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