#DrFrankenFreak The Tour: Week 1

What a week!

We've only done two shows in two venues and I've already got the bruises and mild concussions to prove it.

It's not that the show is "dangerous" it's just high energy, high impact and very exhausting, but we love that about it. If we're not sweating (and in the case of doing our opening show @theatresevern Shrewsbury...) bleeding we're not having a good time.

 The show lends it's self to being grotesque, loud, voilent and hilarious all rolled up into a heady Victorian Circus inspired German Expressionist child's nightmare. Mmmwahahahaa!

Spying

We opened our tour at Theatre Severn on 2nd May to a house of 120 and the show sored. It became everything we intended it to with the live energy from the audience we craved in rehearsals. Here is a review of the show from Owen Lewis on Love Shrewsbury: http://www.loveshrewsbury.com/owen-lewis/dr-frankenstein-visits-walker-theatre 

Also, one audience member enjoyed it so much he gave us this amazing Bearded Lady portrait he painted because of his love of Freak Shows and the Victorian Circus. I love his work and we are so, 

so pleased to own a piece. Check out his work here: http://pipbayley.com/about/ and thank you Pip. We really all were taken aback and so chuffed to recieve this.

 

Setting the stage...

The view from the top balcony of Theatre Severn

Theatre Severn is a cracking venue and I think it needs more alternative theatre. As we learnt on Thursday, there is a market for it if you go about it right (although I will admit, what with it being my home town a lot of the people in attendence were there for that reason) but we loved it and are definetly intent on going back.

A Sound Technician, A Bearded Lady, A Monster and A Lobster man in Machynlleth...

Then on Saturday we travelled to the MIGHTY Machynlleth Comedy Festival. For this one we have to thank @cpaskell Catherine Paskell for getting us in and huge thanks go to all at the Festival. A beautiful town opens it's doors to an inventive, community engaging, joyus and all out awesome festival. I was so, so, so disapointed we didn't stay the night, but next year I won't make that same mistake, and maybe by that time I will have my one-man-show TigerFace ready for an outing.

Plenty more weeks of touring Dr Frankenstein's Travelling Freak Show! to go.

Up next Chapter Arts, Cardiff. This Thursday and Friday we will be performing at 8:00pm so if you like what you see please do come along. http://www.chapter.org/30282.html

Mucho,

Justin Cliffe

Tin Shed Theatre Co.