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I'm working on a solo act which is a mix of comedy, circus freakery and vaudeville in a one man medicine type show, so far I have...
Opener, not sure what yet, any suggestions? Read the following what would you an audience member wanna see? I'm thinking of some kind of box which I am hiding in and am preloaded before the audience enter and which I then explode out of just after the lights have dimmed with a shower of glitter, confetti and smoke. Any other ideas?
Next I give the intro speech, a sort of welcome to The Honourable Dr. Art Morrison's One Man Travelling Medicine Show, be prepared to be amazed, sickened, laugh, smile and be fleeced rotten by a skilled troupe of ne-er-do-wells and freaks (me at the moment!). I give a demo by plunging a knife into my arm and have blood explode from it. I then show I have no permanent damge to my arm, but there may be residual damage to mine, and you the spectators brain.
I then open with my first "bit" an escape trick with a twist, I get shackled hands (behind back) and feet by an audience member, bagged up to the neck and chained into the bag and then I immerse my face in a bowl of water, promising the audience to not emerge until I have escaped. Which obviously I do and when I get out the bag I have changed from my Black suit and white tie into a white suit and black tie.
Moving on to a blockhead routine where I hammer a nail up my nose. I give the audience a choice of nails from tiny to large. And a choice of hammers from a tiny toy one through to a massive 10lb one. I reckon most members will choose the big nail and the heaviest hammer, waddya think?
Segue into the swallowing razor blade routine, by taking a bite out of a tin can and then doing a razor blade swallowing bit regurgitating them on cue all on a line of thread.
Next It's a cigarette stub out onto my tongue, which I dress up so it's be more of a spectacle.
Then it's on to an electric conduction where I take a 30 000 volt shock, stop my heart and light a bulb with the internalised electricity. Seriously. This is a killer routine! Hahahaha!!! It's alright I am a trained professional I have had shocks before, like when Jem told me she was pregnant the first time. That stopped me in my tracks.
Then it's quench an audience members thirst with a free pint of lager time, through a straw, actually the "straw" is a piece of tubing which goes up my nose and out my mouth into the beer. The choice the audience member has is whether they want the end that I threaded through the orifices in their mouth or in the beer!!!
Between all of these bits I am delivering a stand up routine style monologue.
I then finish with a levitate an audience member bit.
And to raptuorous applause (I hope) I leave to sell snake oil to the natives.
So anything you would like to see? Anything you would like me to add, remove, expand on or do you have any ideas of your own you'd think would be amazing to see? I wanna avoid fire as it carrys to many limitations of which buildings I can work in and I really hate the taste of kerosene. Come on the more outlandish, the more bizarre, weird, twisted sick and down right mad the better. So feel free to make your suggestions and offer my blog out to others to join and make their suggestions.
Now I guess some of you will be thinking, OMG does he really do all this, well, dur, yes, that and stilt walking but am not sure how to incorporate that it takes a good 5 mins to get into and then there's the whole height restriction of a venue. Any offers for a female assistant would be greatfully received, to be vetted by Jemma!
Take a look at what I do now though:
Comedian / Ali G Tribute Act / Little Britain Tribute Act / Borat Tribute Act
