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The Boy With Tape On His Face, Touring
The Boy With Tape On His Face, Touring
Sorry but dance has funnier silent clowns with better timing
Sunday, 24 October 2010
New Zealander Sam Wills aka The Boy With Tape On His Face: Sigh, not that funny
The mistake was probably that I hadn’t tanked up beforehand. Clues were there. Soho Theatre is over a pub. 9.45pm start. Who’s going to turn up in those circumstances completely sober? Who would be mad enough to turn up in Soho at 9.45pm stone-cold sober? And a four-star Edinburgh Fringe show had not necessarily been assessed by altogether un-punchdrunk viewers, lurching as they do (and I have done) between five shows a night.
The mistake was probably that I hadn’t tanked up beforehand. Clues were there. Soho Theatre is over a pub. 9.45pm start. Who’s going to turn up in those circumstances completely sober? Who would be mad enough to turn up in Soho at 9.45pm stone-cold sober? And a four-star Edinburgh Fringe show had not necessarily been assessed by altogether un-punchdrunk viewers, lurching as they do (and I have done) between five shows a night.
There's a video on his website that helpfully speeds up his activity as if it were a silent movie; if only he could move more like that
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