THE SPACE SHOW! (2009)

Written, created and performed by Miles O’Neil, Joseph O’Farrell and Glen Walton

Seasons:

2009 April, Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2009 June, Battersea Arts Centre N20 Festival, London

Awards:

Greenroom Award for Best Ensemble

Greenroom Award for Innovative use of Form 

Review quote:

“In a distant galaxy, three intrepid astronauts – Kerry O’Brien, Chuck Norris and Kevin Bacon – seek the cure for mannequinitis, a deadly disease which is ravaging the cosmos. Victims of mannequinitis transmute into living plastic, a fate which has already befallen Bacon’s friend and companion, Christoff. If more lives are to be saved, our heroes must overcome impossible odds – including mysterious aliens, cardboard sets, and the perils of deep space. As with last year’s Golden Gibbo Award-winning The Ghosts of Ricketts Hill, the latest show from The Suitcase Royale – Joseph O’Farrell, Miles O’Neil and Glen Walton – is a triumph of inventive lunacy. Ingeniously employed props and toys create theatrical illusions which are cinematic in scale. Mistakes and ad-libbing are swiftly adapted into the script. Laughs come thick and fast. Although risking self-indulgence when the chaos is pushed too far, The Space Show! always pulls back from the edge. Simply fantastic.”

-Richard Watts, The Age, April 2009