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| Photograph by Rebecca Vaughan |
GARGANTUA: An Excessive Entertainment by Ergo Phizmiz & Friends
plays at SVA Festival, Stroud, May 25th 2013 at 8pm. Info HERE.
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Sunday, 14 April 2013
GARGANTUA review in Mersey Blogs
Nice little review of GARGANTUA by Peter Guy on Mersey Blogs, part of a longer review about the magnificent UpItUp 10th Birthday weekender...
"Ergo Phizmiz and The Wyrding Module topped a bill that brought nigh-on incomparable music and theatre to Liverpool's Mello Mello....This preceded Ergo Phizmiz's Gargantua - a genuinely unique stage-show full of toilet humour, gigantic papier-mâché heads, sliced up gramophone recordings and disturbing religious imagery.
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| Photograph by Martha Moopette. |
As impossible as it was to follow the spiralling, convoluted plot, the visual imagery, wordplay and music all made for an other worldly experience the likes of which only Phizmiz could conjure."
Read the full article here.
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Field Recordings from GARGANTUA Tour by The Travelling Mongoose
Unedited, unprocessed field recordings by The Travelling Mongoose, from the UK tour of Ergo Phizmiz's Excessive Entertainment "GARGANTUA".
GARGANTUA: An Excessive Entertainment - REMIXES out now on the Free Music Archive
Cover montage by Simon Mathewson
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Satisfied customers....
After a long and magical journey about the country, here we are now back at home in Bridport. And just look at some of the lovely things you kind folks have said about our GARGANTUA.....
"Just saw the excellent @ergophizmiz perform "Gargantua".A mystery play about Pontiffs, Pan and Opium smoking meta detectives...Marvellous!"
"Gargantua was a triumph last nite, but now everything seems ordinary in comparison.Thanks for mangling my brain Ergo!"
"@ergophizmiz Gargantua seared my eyeballs and made my pants implode with its grotesque beauty at the Cube last night - thanks Ergo!"
"Gargantua by @ergophizmiz was WONDERFUL last night @CUBECINEMA - touring onwards- TRACK THEM DOWN!"
"That was excellent, was like watching a Christian mystery play, written by David Lynch and performed by Reeves and Mortimer!"
"So, I went to ERGO PHIZMIZ presents GARGANTUA - AN EXCESSIVE ENTERTAINMENT! tonight. I can't even tell you what I just watched, other than it was brilliant, weird, odd, bizarre and left me feeling very confused. But, all in a good way."
"Grand show in Dartington, we loved it; nutty!"
"Bloody brilliant. Utterly, bizarrely, brilliant! Thanks for a very random, confusing, Monday night :0) x"
"Was well enjoyed on our table. Thanks and hope to see you guys soon"
"Amazing and Brilliant show last nite: GARGANTUA. Wonderfully original. Keep hassling the Arts Council- we want more!!"
"Absolutely blown away by the magnificent intensity of@ergophizmiz’s #Gargantua tonight, well done one & all :))"
"Version of GARGANTUA I dreamt about last night fucking marvellous well done@ergophizmiz"
"Loved Gargantua last night in Berwick. Madness and several cohesive story lines. Great collage novella too. Lovely miming."
"Bravo GARGANTUA! Children roasting on an open fire. step, kick, step, kick, shimmmmy. an MB Games advert directed by Victor Neuberg"
"Great, surreal stuff from@ergophizmiz at @MelloMelloCafe for @UpitUp's 10th anniversary bash."
"@ergophizmiz WAS ART!!!!!!!!!"
"Just had our tiny minds blown by the brilliance of@ergophizmiz's Gargantua. Well done chaps, great stuff xx"
"Went to see Gargantua@ergophizmiz at the cube last night, was amazing! Loved it!"
"Just saw the excellent @ergophizmiz perform "Gargantua".A mystery play about Pontiffs, Pan and Opium smoking meta detectives...Marvellous!"
"Gargantua was a triumph last nite, but now everything seems ordinary in comparison.Thanks for mangling my brain Ergo!"
"i haven't laughed in ecstatic bewilderment like that ever before - and it turned on a knife-edge to deeply moving and powerful imagery, which is rare and extremely hard to pull off."
"@ergophizmiz Gargantua seared my eyeballs and made my pants implode with its grotesque beauty at the Cube last night - thanks Ergo!"
"Gargantua by @ergophizmiz was WONDERFUL last night @CUBECINEMA - touring onwards- TRACK THEM DOWN!"
"That was excellent, was like watching a Christian mystery play, written by David Lynch and performed by Reeves and Mortimer!"
"So, I went to ERGO PHIZMIZ presents GARGANTUA - AN EXCESSIVE ENTERTAINMENT! tonight. I can't even tell you what I just watched, other than it was brilliant, weird, odd, bizarre and left me feeling very confused. But, all in a good way."
"Grand show in Dartington, we loved it; nutty!"
"Bloody brilliant. Utterly, bizarrely, brilliant! Thanks for a very random, confusing, Monday night :0) x"
"Was well enjoyed on our table. Thanks and hope to see you guys soon"
"Amazing and Brilliant show last nite: GARGANTUA. Wonderfully original. Keep hassling the Arts Council- we want more!!"
"Absolutely blown away by the magnificent intensity of
"Version of GARGANTUA I dreamt about last night fucking marvellous well done
"Loved Gargantua last night in Berwick. Madness and several cohesive story lines. Great collage novella too. Lovely miming."
"Bravo GARGANTUA! Children roasting on an open fire. step, kick, step, kick, shimmmmy. an MB Games advert directed by Victor Neuberg"
"Great, surreal stuff from
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"Just had our tiny minds blown by the brilliance of
"Went to see Gargantua
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
The latest lovely words...
...about Gargantua from the punters:
Claire Leavey @retrometroco 21 Mar
Gargantua by Ergo Phizmiz - "A Triumph" Five Stars. Etc. Go and see it. A rare oasis of madness in a clinically sane world.
Lisa Richards @LisaRichards5 21 Mar
Went to see Gargantua @ergophizmiz at the cube last night, was amazing! Loved it!
Claire Leavey @retrometroco 21 Mar
Gargantua by Ergo Phizmiz - "A Triumph" Five Stars. Etc. Go and see it. A rare oasis of madness in a clinically sane world.
Lisa Richards @LisaRichards5 21 Mar
Went to see Gargantua @ergophizmiz at the cube last night, was amazing! Loved it!
Saturday, 23 March 2013
The Mushroom Haiku
From the vast bank of rehearsal archive footage, Flora Bertolli's mesmerizing performance of John Cage's Mushroom Haiku.
Friday, 22 March 2013
Podcast 5
In which Gargantua cast and crew members discuss characters, acting, character acting, hymns to nihilism and great big vats of shit.
On tour...
Setting up and sorting out the show at The Marlborough, in Brighton
And at Mello Mello in Liverpool as part of the Upitup Records 10th weekender party
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Fabulous Twitter revues...
Fresh from Twitter, lovely reactions to Gargantua in Bristol:
Jono Gilmurray @JonoGilmurray 41m
@ergophizmiz Gargantua seared my eyeballs and made my pants implode with its grotesque beauty at the Cube last night - thanks Ergo!
Tom Bugs @BugBrand 1h
Gargantua by @ergophizmiz was WONDERFUL last night @CUBECINEMA - touring onwards- http://gargantuadisappears.blogspot.co.uk/p/tickets.html TRACK THEM DOWN!
and Isle of Wight:
From Skryll Vertex
"That was excellent, was like watching a Christian mystery play, written by David Lynch and performed by Reeves and Mortimer!"
and this one from Dartington:
Dog Prophet @Skryll_Vertex 18 Mar
Just saw the excellent @ergophizmiz perform "Gargantua".A mystery play about Pontiffs, Pan and Opium smoking meta detectives...Marvellous!
and Bridport:
John Butler @the_woodlouse 17 Mar
@Pensham the cows were part of cool visuals to less-than-engaging support act. The main event was confusing but entertaining genius.
Jono Gilmurray @JonoGilmurray 41m
@ergophizmiz Gargantua seared my eyeballs and made my pants implode with its grotesque beauty at the Cube last night - thanks Ergo!
Tom Bugs @BugBrand 1h
Gargantua by @ergophizmiz was WONDERFUL last night @CUBECINEMA - touring onwards- http://gargantuadisappears.blogspot.co.uk/p/tickets.html TRACK THEM DOWN!
and Isle of Wight:
From Skryll Vertex
"That was excellent, was like watching a Christian mystery play, written by David Lynch and performed by Reeves and Mortimer!"
and this one from Dartington:
Dog Prophet @Skryll_Vertex 18 Mar
Just saw the excellent @ergophizmiz perform "Gargantua".A mystery play about Pontiffs, Pan and Opium smoking meta detectives...Marvellous!
and Bridport:
John Butler @the_woodlouse 17 Mar
@Pensham the cows were part of cool visuals to less-than-engaging support act. The main event was confusing but entertaining genius.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Podcast 4 - Smack, Smackeroons and Smacking Bottoms
Saturday night saw the grand unveiling of Mr Phizmiz's wonderful new production, and very well it went too. Fantastic turn out, lots of great comments, a thoroughly enjoyable evening had by all. Well done cast members Rob Lee, Growler Pounder and Dr Robertson and everyone else involved. Now they just got to to tour it up and down the country. Good luck to them!
Here's another in our podcast series where cast and crew members got tipsy and attempted to explain aspects of Gargantua, or not.
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Friday, 15 March 2013
Photographs of GARGANTUA by Rebecca Vaughan
Rebecca Vaughan kindly popped in and took these rather tasty photos of GARGANTUA: An Excessive Entertainment by Ergo Phizmiz & Friends. Many thanks. Delicious.
GARGANTUA : An Excessive Entertainment by Ergo Phizmiz & Friends opens tomorrow at Bridport Arts Centre, tours the UK from March 16-26
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| Monkton Wylde, the man's man of opium dreams, with some blocks. |
Last day of rehearsals...
Full dress rehearsal for the Gargantua cast and crew in Bridport Arts Centre - venue 1 of the UK tour. It's all going tremendously well and I urge to come and see it. Photos by Theo Mathewson (aged 3)
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