Rude Mechanical Theatre Company on tour

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It’s a summer on the road for Eastbourne-based Rude Mechanical Theatre Company as they tour the south with Gentle Harry’s Farm.

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00:00good afternoon my name is phil hewitt group arts editor for sussex newspapers lovely to speak to

00:06holly and evie from the rude mechanical theater company now you're just about to go on the road

00:12all over the south of england countless countless places along the way with the show is harry's farm

00:19isn't it yeah gentle harry's farm now evie give me an idea of what this world is all about because

00:27you're saying that it's a bit cartoon like but it's got heart as well isn't it yeah so all of the

00:33rude mechanical theater company shows are very sort of heightened uh for outdoor theater you see a lot

00:40of um sort of british stereotypes coming through when we cartoonize everything so that it's all

00:48got a rhythm and a beat and they're all sort of familiar characters really um but with every show

00:54there is a real heart to it as well so you get the lightness i mean with a lot of cartoon sort of

01:00stuff anyway um you get a lot of light and a lot of dark and yeah so they're they're lovely they're

01:07really heartwarming wonderful silly shows and they were incredibly appealing and holly you were saying

01:14that it uses so many of the skills that you loved and that you have yes it's a real gift as an actor

01:20because you can multi-roll so playing multiple different characters whether that be man or animal

01:25um and uh also um we're all instrumentalists so um there's all live music we sing we dance we play

01:33our instruments and and also it's everything is in mime i mean we do speak the text but the world

01:40is created through mime so no props so uh we can go anywhere in the imagination

01:45and in this show we're on a farmyard and well absolutely i was going to ask evie to perhaps

01:50set the scene where do we begin with this one so we begin uh really it's all centered around

01:57gentle harry's farm and obviously the surrounding acres of land uh there's magpie woods which is where

02:04we meet some sort of dastardly characters and some various animals um we're also uh some of the

02:12animals are investigating a gate that's been taken off of its hinges and they realize that they're free

02:18to explore further afield quite literally um and there's also some things that happen within the

02:25farm itself and the show this year is set in 1957 so it's very sort of um traditional you know english

02:34uh countryside feel to it which is perfect for the summer actually you know isn't it it goes like

02:39hand in hand with that ollie you've got quite a range of characters haven't you not all of them

02:43human in fact most of them not most of them not no um no i've got a collie dog a uh sheep a magpie

02:53and a young boy of 10 so yes a nice range of characters and again that's part of the attraction

03:01playing with the company isn't it absolutely yeah it's it's great fun to be able to um multi-roll

03:06um yeah it's just um really silly and yeah great it's it's really like personally i really enjoy

03:13playing a completely different what gender or or species and on top of that obviously for all of

03:22you you're going to some pretty fabulous places aren't you yeah we do get some really beautiful

03:27places the best of the the south yeah yeah the venues are gorgeous and it's just such a treat to be

03:35working outdoors for the summer you know as long as it's not raining as long as it's not raining ever

03:42never hopefully not fantastic well have a fabulous summer really lovely to speak to both of you

03:49good luck with the whole thing thank you see you there

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