Creatures from the Land of Satin and Soldiers - Drawings by Oblivian Substanshall

Ergo Phizmiz's "GARGANTUA" features collaborations with a brilliant creative group, including Simon Mathewson (video, animation, design, paintings, production) Flora Bertolli (performer), Nicky Mathewson (choreography), Martha Moopette (masks, design) Robert Lee (performer), and Oblivian Substanshall (paintings and drawings).

Here, for your delight and delectation, are drawings by the marvellous artist, painter and composer Oblivian Substanshall, for the "Land of Satin" sequence of the show.

.... and some Soldiers, from the War sequence ....

ERGO PHIZMIZ'S "GARGANTUA" - REMIX FUN NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

Painting by Oblivian Substanshall

The above WAV file is presented for you delicious remixers out there - shards and fragments and bits and bobs from the creation of the sound to Ergo Phizmiz's "GARGANTUA". We are inviting you princesses and princes of sound to chop, dissect, eat, and regurgitate this material, and indeed any other material you find on this blog, to create remixes and reimaginings of the sounds contained.

All remixes will be included in this blog. All remixes will also be used during the pre-show music mixes, with full credit in the programme.

All remixes can be sent to ergophizmiz at gmail

GARGANTUA OUTTAKES

A montage of music that didn't make the final cut of Ergo Phizmiz's forthcoming "GARGANTUA"

GARGANTUA - The Board Game

What was it you wanted? The entire narrative of Ergo Phizmiz's new multimedia performance "Gargantua" as an impossible board-game? Well here you go....

Tickets on sale and full UK tour dates

The March 2013 UK tour of Ergo Phizmiz's Gargantua will comprise of....

16th BRIDPORT Arts Centre

17th DARTINGTON Soundart Radio
18th ISLE OF WIGHT Depozitory

19th BRIGHTON The Marlborough

20th BRISTOL Cube

21st LIVERPOOL Mellomello

22nd NEWCASTLE Morden Tower

24th EAGLESCLIFFE The Waiting Room

25th BERWICK-UPON-TWEED The Maltings

Some tickets are already on sale! 

Buy tickets for the Bridport show HERE

Buy tickets for the Brighton show HERE

Buy tickets for the Berwick show HERE

All other tickets will be on sale imminently.

We are also in discussions with a number of London venues ....

Some of the shows also feature support acts from across the country, including Hacker Farm (Bridport), Vulnavia Vanity (Brighton), Clockwork Moth (Dartington) and many more TBA.

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Gargantua is the new work for theatre, music and media by internationally acclaimed artist and composer Ergo Phizmiz.

This hallucinatory odyssey through time and culture tells three simultaneous stories, one a detective story on the disappearance of the giant King Gargantua, another of an adventure by French writer Francois Rabelais across Europe, the third a strange, elliptical board-game that draws these threads together.

Told through a mixture of performance, animation, puppetry, collage and masks, and an original music score equal parts contemporary electronic, medieval and 1930s British dance band, Gargantua takes history and culture and places them into a boiling pot ready for explosion.

Gargantua is a modern vaudeville of the imagination, and promises to be unlike anything you have seen or heard before. Where else would you find a cast list that includes the Pope, Frank Sinatra, Jonah, Pete Waterman, and Pinocchio?

Created by Ergo Phizmiz, and inspired by the writings of Francois Rabelais, Gargantua is a concoction of mini-epic, detective story, outlandish fantasy, and vaudeville.

Age 10+ (occasional swearing and mild drug references)
1h (no interval)
Supported by PRS Foundation

Gargantua Pot-Pourri

Musical extracts from Ergo Phizmiz's "GARGANTUA"

"GARGANTUA" An Excessive Entertainment, by Ergo Phizmiz - Coming March 2013 - TRAILER