Corsham Festival: Midnight Goggles

1:08pm Tuesday 1st July 2008

This was entrancing stuff for kids and kids-at-heart who love being told a story.

This has everything, mystery, magic, music, mystics and monsters.

SharpWire are Matthew Sharp, international cellist, singer and theatre performer and transatlantic guitarist and composer Pete M Wyer.

Sharp is the man on stage telling the story of Jonny who is kidnapped by the black camel of Takrilakastan to be slave to its infernal machine which keeps the people of this other world immortal.

The storyteller is told by mysterious people to be a super hero and rescue not just Jonny but the whole universe.

The tale is told with the spoken and sung word and the voice of Sharp's cello all superbly executed.

Lighting and sound effects complete the scenes and whole worlds are conjured in your mind, all in a studio that is basically a black box.

It's exciting, funny, sometimes scary and clever.

Jo Bayne

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