Peppiatt, Daniel
:
Theatre, Drama and Live Art,
Festival / Events,
Street Theatre,
Sculptor,
The Show
‘Misadventures of a Victorian Dragon Machine’.
Blending industrial sculpture, animatronics and street theatre, be baffled, amused and maybe even amazed at the sight of an ‘authentic’ Victorian Dragon Hunter being pulled along in his trusty wicker bath chair by a 10ft long, flying, smoke-breathing, mechanical dragon with a 3 metre wingspan and a grumpy demeanour.
The show, which works well in the day, and when lit up by nearly 200 led lights after dark, is based upon the theme of an eccentric Victorian explorer-Wilberforce Cavendish-Smythe, who has somehow captured himself a real dragon and trained it to pull his bath chair around the globe in search of a female companion for his lonely pet.
Donning his pith helmet and sporting an insane monocle and handlebar moustache, he sets off. Equipped with an array of ‘specialised scientific equipment’ he fights to control his strong-minded beast and occasionally disembarks to question members of the public and run ‘a few essential tests’ on them; all to a soundtrack of such swing classics as ‘Fly me to the Moon’ and ‘Come Fly with Me’. ..
