Their inaugural performance was a hit, despite being only 20 minutes long. Simon and Friend became Puppetry of the Penis, debuting at the 1998 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Their infamy slowly grew and in 1998 Morley finally decided to take his act to the public stage, with the help of another natural performer, David Friend. and the next thing you know, you know how people talk, everyone just knew about it and we found ourselves being invited to parties where we didn't really know anyone and people would be like, 'oh, come on, show us The Hamburger!'" "It was a thing we used to do as kids to make each other laugh, but then, our friends came to find out what we could do. "It started off as a party trick, there was a bit of sibling rivalry with my brothers and I," Morley explained. And spectacle it is, with over 40 "heroic and hilarious" penis installations like The Pelican, The Windsurfer, The Eiffel Tower, The Loch Ness Monster and their signature move, The Hamburger. There's also a cheeky, Vaudeville-style act that accompanies the visual spectacle. "I'm sure every boy, at some point, has walked out of the shower and gone, 'hang on a second, what does that look like?' We've pretty much just put capes on and taken it way too far." You know, young boys having a little bit too much to drink, kicking their pants off to entertain their friends." "It's behaviour that's probably not so uncommon to you folks up there at Whistler. Morley points out that the concept for the show actually came from a natural, childhood curiousity. "In the early days, we'd get people turning up in their opera clothes and coming to see some theatre, but it's pretty well branded now, so I think people know they're coming to see a couple of boys manipulating their genitals for the amusement of others," said Simon Morley, founder of the show. Actually, the founder of the show recommends that you leave the monocle at home, as the performing team's testicular tricks will be projected three-stories high onto a giant screen. Puppetry of the Penis isn't the kind of show you need to dust off your finest apparel for.
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