Show Details
Director Martin Danziger
Producer Chloe Dear
Music Neil MacArthur
Company te POOKa
Cast 8 female / 4 male
Premiered Old College Quad, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1998
Winner of the List Magazine Festival Top 20
A devised piece of promenade theatre, based on the old Scottish tale of Assipattle and Mester Stoorworm. Performed in the huge outdoor space of the Old College Quad the performance brought together highly physical performances, pyrotechnics and fire, and a large customised vehicle as the monster.
...filled with raw excitement... what is extraordinary is the use of space - and the gravelly quad has plenty of that - and the way in which the audience is manipulated into moving with the action, all the time being sucked in closer before all hell breaks loose. Then you are likely to be confronted with a torch wielder or someone crashing around with corrugated trolleys, that later double as savage cages. These moments are where the full effect of disorientation, and not a little fear, come in where the identities of performer and punter become less distinct.
The ListThis is the stuff of fringe legends... blinding light effects, a powerful soundtrack and a mechanical firebreathing monster with spectacular routines with flaming torches... the performers throw themselves around with apparent disregard for life and limb... energy, ingenuity and technical expertise
The Scotsmanpulsating music, blinding searchlights, funeral pyres and a terrifying mechanical monster... pure spectacle..
The Guardian
