Fans of the one man musical movement, Ergo Phizmiz, should not forget the extravaganza lined up for later today (Monday).
Gargantua, a brand new ‘vaudeville of the imagination’ from the beautifully scrambled brains of UK polymath Ergo Phizmiz, tours the UK in March 2013 and will be heading to The Loft in Newport tonight between 6-8pm.
Multi-sensory feast
A multi-sensory feast and genuinely unique patchwork of artistic disciplines, Gargantua plunders history and culture and places them in a boiling pot ready for explosion.
A devilish mix of storytelling, performance, animation, puppetry, moving image collage and masks, all garlanded by an original music score that’s equal parts contemporary electronic, medieval and 1930s British dance band.
E is for Ergo
If ‘F is for Fake’ then ‘E’ could be for ‘Ergo’. This hallucinatory odyssey through time and culture tells three simultaneous stories: one a detective story on the disappearance of the giant King Gargantua, another of an adventure by French writer Francois Rabelais across Europe, the third a strange, elliptical board game that draws these threads together, in a story told by the more than reliable Gargantuan narrator Orson Welles.
If you haven’t visited before, welcome to the world of Ergo Phizmiz.
The Gargantua blog features details of said board game, video/audio clips, remixes and pictures of the production in progress.
Details of tonight’s event over on our event listings.
