The Solvents turn a theatre into a pigs-stable with Ula Dajerling, Reggie Watts and Freaks in the Box
The audience of the Gun Show pinched themselves awake at the nightmarish sight of six pigs storming the venue at 2:00am, in the middle of a comedy act on Thursday 24 August. Supercomedian- Reggie Watts jumped on the mic to make a live soundscape to the eerie intervention by the Solvents and The Freaks in the Box. The six performers wearing butcher’s aprons and real pigs heads on their faces proceeded into turning the venue into a deranged pig stable.
After wading through the dancefloor of the C venue, the pigs jumped on stage, took the guests’ beers out of the ice buckets and distributed them to the audience, replacing the cans with pig brains and skulls. They threw sausages to the audience, dragged people to dance, walked on all fours making pigs sounds, recreating the worst imaginable picture of “The Animal Farm”.
The audience was left aghast when the pigs disappeared and Reggie Watts continued his act as if nothing had happened.
This was the first collaboration between The Solvents, Reggie Watts and the Freaks in the Box, who met in the last week at the Fringe and fell in love with each other’s work.
See the video (filmed by Alex Forge http://www.alexforge.net):
More info about the artists involved:
http://www.freaksinthebox.com
http://www.reggiewatts.com
http://www.thesolvents.net