Radical City week is here and I’m feeling as radical as rabid radish in a plum trifle.
Posted by Literary on 19th Apr 2011 at 10:07 | Tiny Volcanoes, ALMANAC - RADICAL CITY | 0 comments
Radical City week is here and I’m feeling as radical as rabid radish in a plum trifle. We’ve had Mark Thomas on the Everyman. He was so radical that he executed anyone in the audience who looked like they might have voted Conservative.
And now the crazy clock is ticking away to Tiny Volcanoes. Rehearsals have been a blast, the boys have been well behaved. And we’ve got a right radical pick and mix of a show for you. We’ve grabbed Blighty by the balls and given them a good yank, and a whole host of satire and fire has come exploding out of them.
I did a radical overhaul of the play since it was a working progress at the Everyword festival last year. It’s a very different animal now. Like the Bionic Man, we have the technology to rebuild it. Stronger, faster, better. Kevin and Michael are like two whooshing whirlwinds of comic genius. They have taken this play and nailed it to their hearts and souls.
We’ve got video stuff that will amaze you, straight from the brain of Tim Brunsden, we’ve got sounds capes to tickle your ears drawn from the id of Xenia Bayer.
James Grieves of Paines Plough fame has been thinking, really thinking, a lot, and yesterday it started to pay of, for James had an idea, we couldn’t believe it, we’d given up hope, he had us on tender hooks, it was a fabulous idea, very radical, the show would benefit greatly from its inclusion. Trouble is we were all so excited that James had had an idea that we forgot to listen to it, and nobody’s seen him since.
But fear not because we are on a mission to deliver a show that will radicalize your mind waves and turn you all into heroes of the future. You can catch Tiny Volcanoes, this week at the Everyman on Wed and Thur (20-21 April) before it heads off on a UK tour.
And I’ve not stopped there, oh no Sir’ey Bob. Because I am also taking part in another Radical Liverpool Week Event. That’s right I’m in the Almanac Radical City Show on the following Saturday, you can’t miss it, it’s in-between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, which makes it sort of holy.
They asked me to write and perform one of my own poems, they asked me when I was in a locked room, with no way out, they held a gun to my head, these guys are ridiculously radical, they made me sign up, so I did and I’ve written a poem or is it a rhyme, (you decide) called The Radical History Tour of Scouse Land. I’ve rehearsed it and they said I was good. I’m working on my toffee mouth, it’s been years since I performed on stage, and my vocal dexterity has become vocal epilepsy. But fear not, because I’m doing my Betty Butter bought some batter exercises and I have learned the lines. It’s going to be a great show, not just because I’m in it, but also because other people are in it, or have written for it. I’d mention them all here now in a witty list of literary genius but my ego forbids it! You’ll have to hit the link and find out for yourselves. I can say that Almanac’s Radical City will be a happening, it will feature many Liverpool talents and it will be an incredible mixture of styles and media.
Tiny Volcanoes and Radical City are going to be those shows that you will pretend that your saw if you didn’t. So come on, don’t be pretenders be audience members!
Laurence Wilson
Playwright, Tiny Volcanoes(2010/11) Lost Monsters (2009), Urban Legend (2004)
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