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Forkbeard Fantasy are a multi-media theatre company. The idea of Forkbeard Fantasy came in the early 1970s with three brothers - Simon, Chris and Tim Britton. Simon was a painter and maker of kinetic mechanical sculptures; Chris, fascinated by experimental and physical theatre, devised constructions and gadgetry to perform within; and Tim, a poet, writer and cartoonist, could see how his imaginative world might be realized in live performance. In the early days, Forkbeard found that they fitted most comfortably within the new wave of British experimental performance and performance art that had been burgeoning since the 1960s. It was a time of much mixing of media, kinetic and ‘living’ sculptures, performance art, happenings, poetry performance and squeaky-bonky jazz, all elements, art forms and media. Forkbeard have been producing and presenting their highly individual brand of comic surrealism, creating performances, theatre shows, films, cartoons, automata, sculptures, special events, installations and interactive exhibitions across the UK and abroad without stop since the mid 1970s. image right from Invisible Bonfires.
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Invisible Bonfires
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2007
Forkbeard Fantasy tackles climate change with surreal comedy, invention, film and animation in Invisible Bonfires.
On a global tour of climate change conferences, the Brittonioni Brothers explore global warming through such topics as the Evolution of the Carbon Weevil, the FairyAngel Conundrum and the coming of the new Plactic-ene Era. With special guests Mammon and Pan and live music by The Lotus Pedals, Invisible Bonfires is run by horse power and hot air.
The show tours nationally from May - June 2007 and from September 2007 - February 2008, in venues including Nottingham Playhouse, Buxton Opera House, Warwick Arts Centre, Toynbee Studios in London, The Lowry at Salford Quays, and venues in Lancaster, Devon and Bristol.
The show is based on Forkbeard Fantasy's Royal Shakespeare Company commission 'Rough Magyck' in 2006. Invisible Bonfires - The Exhibition starts touring in August 2007, and is an interactive environment for gallery spaces and museums. Funded by a DEFRA Climate Challenge Award.
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Invisible Bonfires
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A Serious Leak
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1989, 1990
High on the rooftops of government buildings, strange scientific advances are rumoured to be in progress. Secret doorways have been built into cine-screens showing films of vast unspoilt wilderness. The Ministry of Environment is filling these locations with waste to become their newly established 'Garbage Archives'. Waste Disposal has been solved for Humankind. But the fantastical imaginings of the employees charged with the maintenance of this new dimension are resulting in escaped pterodactyls, Yetis and giant crows. The show was inspired by the privatization of The Water Board and a water pollution disaster in Camelford at that time. The show ended with a real vertical Devon waterfall in a cupboard with water cascading down over rocks and mosses. After the audience gets a fleeting glimpse the door is slammed shut and rendered out of bounds forever. This show (rather hilariously in retrospect though certainly not at the time) caused a mass walk-out of Stanislavskiists when it appeared in Oslo. As they left in mounting numbers they had to climb over the rope that connected us to the film world.
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A Serious Leak
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