The Voloz Collective will perform comedy caper 'The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much' at Swindon's Wyvern Theatre.
After winning the Les Enfants Terribles and Greenwich Theatre Award 2020, Voloz Collective are heading on a UK tour with The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much.
The collective will visit Swindon's Wyvern Theatre on Sunday 6 and Monday 7 February. The performances on both evenings will take place at 7.30pm.
Tickets can be purchased at https://swindontheatres.co.uk/Online/tickets-the-man-who-thought-he-knew-too-much-swindon-2022
The show is described as an intercontinental, inter-genre, cinematic caper of accusations, accidents, and accents.
A spokesperson for the performance said: "Roger Clement, a Frenchman in 1960's New York, has followed the same predictable routine for years, until a minor delay saves him from an explosion, throwing his ordered world into chaos as Roger chases his would-be assassins around the world to discover the truth.
"Raucously funny and endlessly inventive, this Lecoq-trained theatre company delights and stuns with live, original music and virtuosic acrobatics in this award-winning fast-paced whodunnit."
Writer and Director Emily Wheatman said: “We will bring audiences to the roots of vaudevillian physical comedy with Voloz’s own contemporary cinematic twist.
“I’m particularly thrilled to have the opportunity to perform the show in the south west, where I grew up before moving to France to study. I'm so excited to return to my hometown and local areas with this show, and give back to the communities that helped me thrive and allowed me to dream big.”
Voloz Collective is an award-winning international physical theatre company that aims to reinvent and recharge physical comedy by exploiting the capacities of the human body and blurring the lines between the theatrical and cinematic.
Hailing from three different countries, the team of four was brought together by two years of study at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.
Voloz has performed at venues ranging from an organic farm in rural Vermont, to London’s Pleasance Theatre, and their recent theatrical film America played Off-Broadway in NYC as part of Ars Nova's ANT FEST.
They have been awarded residencies at La Factorie in Normandy, France, and The Sable Project in Vermont, USA. This show has been developed at Paris’s Guillotine Theatre, London's Greenwich Theatre and at The Pleasance's 'A Pleasance Scratch, and won the Les Enfants Terribles and Greenwich Theatre Award 2020.
Company information:
Written and Directed by Olivia Zerphy, Emily Wheatman, Paul Lofferon, and Samuel Rayner
Lighting design by Joe Underwood
Original Composition and Live Music by Frederick Waxman
Cast:
Paul Lofferon, Samuel Rayner, Emily Wheatman, Olivia Zerphy
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