Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company

"Fear the day you feel the eyes and the urge to recount
your tales to the emptiness of the air, for it is then
that you know that the darkness is coming."

The Germinator marked the next step in the history of Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company, as it was the first piece of new writing they produced.

The Germinator was a one man show written and performed by Oliver Lansley and mixed a variety of physical theatre, sound and projections in a piece of multi-media theatre.

'The Germinator' is a dark fairytale about the life of an extraordinary young man, his journeys, experiences and the vast array of bizarre characters he's encountered along the way. The Storyteller leaps in and out of the weird and wonderful caricatures, in a completely original piece that explores the darker sides of human nature in a way we can all understand.

The Production blends image, sound, music and physicality into a unique piece of storytelling theatre - A Fairy Story unlike any you've ever seen before.

After previewing at The Space the piece transferred up to The Assembly Rooms for Les Enfant's second consecutive Edinburgh where it went on to win the 'Hairline Highlight Award'.

Watch The Germinator trailer

CREDITS:

Wriiten, Directed, Produced and Performed by:	Oliver Lansley
Music, Sound and Multimedia Design by:	Tomas Gisby Neil Townsend

HAIRLINE *****
HAIRLINE HIGHLIGHT AWARD
'Takes theatre beyond mere entertainment.'

A great example of how multi-media theatre can work - It doesn't, however, overshadow the sheer presence of Oliver
Lansley, our narrator and actor. And what an actor he is.
Lansley's performance is delivered with extreme confidence at breakneck speed, at once deliriously happy, an instant
later solemn and tearful. It's clear he has a whale of a time on stage... takes theatre beyond mere entertainment. Lansley
can go from a whisper to a scream in a moment, character jumping like a star-struck schizophrenic, energetic but
focussed at all times, and that is something to be lauded.
There is a sly, modern political undertone throughout, perfect for those who read so joyously into such satire, but the
real pleasure of this is in the narration and the performance, which all add up to an amusing, thoughtful, and extremely
enjoyable set-piece of theatre.

THREE WEEKS
'Highly imaginative and haunting'

Powerful, dignified and controlled performance... highly imaginative and haunting... the images perfectly coherent with
the gothic horror of the intelligent script.

THE SCOTSMAN
'Gloriously weird'

An interesting child-phobic theme involving the extermination of children to fit the schemes of a mad dictator; and some
gloriously weird visual images by Ex Animo [Productions] of television-style talking heads imposed on Victorian picture-book
drawings. Ideal for weirdos with a taste for the Gothic.

THE WHARF
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