My Death excerpt (for Electroplasm - show from the Angliss sisters and Richard Wiseman)

A preview of Electroplasm, our new show at the Brighton Festival Fringe. At the Marlborough Theatre, 8, 9 and 10 May 2009 (with a music-only preview at Bom-Bane's, Brighton, 6 May). Tickets, info and reviews from http://www.sarahangliss.com/gigs/electroplasm .

Sarah and Jenny Angliss (Spacedog UK) join psychologist and Quirkology author Richard Wiseman http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com for one of the strangest shows on the Fringe. The sisters use the haunting sounds of the female voice, bells, vintage synth and theremin to coax out any resident ghosts of Brighton's venerable Marlborough Theatre. And when their death ballads and eerie electronica have chilled the audience to the bone, the theatre will fall into complete darkness, as Wiseman invites the audience to participate in a theatrical reconstruction of a Victorian séance.

The live performers are accompanied by some unsettling home-spun automata, including a robotic bell rig and Uncanny Valerie, a moving, 'all-seeing' 1950s doll. The music is a shameless mix of the outfit's favourite Weill and Brel ballads, songs from British cult classic The Wickerman, some of the band's own numbers and electronic interpretations of 13th-century tales of necromancers.

"Drop dead brilliant', Edgar Allan Poe

Music: My Death (Jacques Brel) arranged by Sarah Angliss, performed by the Angliss sisters

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Electroplasm
• Brighton Festival Fringe
• theremin
• automata
• seance
• Jacques Brel
• Sarah Angliss
• Jenny Angliss
• Richard Wiseman
• Spacedog
• Quirkology
• sound artist
• Brighton
• artbots
• Marlborough Theatre
• spooky
• parasychology

[ScottMckay1987]

Erm just to point out Wisemans was an experiment to see if wed fall for the same tricks the victorians did his was fake to begin with and rather amusing

[SpacedogTelevisor]

Yes Scott you remembered correctly. The second half of our show is Richard's theatrical reconstruction of a séance. He leaves the truth or fiction of the séance itself open - because it's more fun. :;)

[DoYaLikeThat]

oh! now, this is just excel-lent! where can i find more like this!

[CrassZorro]

Sort of a theatrical equivalent to a Brothers Quay film. The movement of the twitching bell machine reminds me of stop-motion animation from "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name is Alive(see YT). Throw in a spirited doll and ethereal vocals and you've got what might best be termed a dead ringer.

[redunc66]

Chilling. If it's anything like The Haunt no doubt I shall be running screaming from the theatre.

[GordonCharlton]

Good luck with the show!