Sales Pitch 16/9/2010
This is a video of the performance of Sales Pitch that was part of Eventual, the LICA Postgraduate showcase at Lancaster University. This was the only performance, and it was filmed for the purposes of marking, rather than to make the most of the visuals. We'd just teched it that morning, and I'm afraid it shows. Still, despite a few visible errors, I hope that theatre people at least can see what sort of show it was, and why it forms most of my answer to the problem of staging Science Fiction.
It is 23 minutes long.
Original Story by Philip K Dick
Adapted by Aliki Chapple
Designed by Stephanie Sims and Aliki Chapple
Directed by Aliki Chapple, Ryan Sullivan, and Matt Fenton (it's complicated)
Performed by Andy Avery, Aliki Chapple, and Sharon Lancaster
Music : The Space Girl’s Song, by Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger, performed by Peggy Seeger
Saturn, NASA Voyager Space sounds (The Symphonies of the Planets)
It’s Only A Paper Moon, by Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg and Billy Rose, performed by The Hot Club of Cowtown
