I had the IMMENSE pleasure of joining GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN for their Live Art Community Musical Project on Friday 31st October 2014 at the SPILL Festival.
Being not only a huge fan of the company but also continually inspired and excited by their work I was like a pig in muck working with them and the rest of the 'misfit' cast!
Here is a bit of info from their website about the project.
My personal favourite review of the SPILL Festival 2014 is available here
On Friday 31 October 2014, this Live Art Community Musical invaded the New Wolsey main stage in Ipswich, charging headlong into a bare-knuckle fight with virtuosity, legitimacy and taboo, at SPILL Festival.
A ‘misfit’ cast skipped its way through a toe-tappingly problematic landscape of stereotype - the kind we convince ourselves has been wiped clean off the map by now.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas sees brothel madam Miss Mona run out of town by a crusading do-gooder celebrity. What will her girls do? Will Mona and the Sheriff re-light their spark? Will the local football team’s annual orgy get busted and leave everyone with their pants down? Are GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN just making a pointless song and dance?
GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN’s version of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas explores exertion, desire, cliché, the epic and will be unlike any musical you have ever seen.
at SPILL Festival of Performance 2014. Photo credit: Tom Mountford
at SPILL Festival of Performance 2014. Photo credit: Tom Mountford
at SPILL Festival of Performance 2014. Photo credit: Tom Mountford
at SPILL Festival of Performance 2014. Photo credit: Tom Mountford
at SPILL Festival of Performance 2014. Photo credit: Tom Mountford
at SPILL Festival of Performance 2014. Photo credit: Tom Mountford
at SPILL Festival of Performance 2014. Photo credit: Tom Mountford
at SPILL Festival of Performance 2014. Photo credit: Tom Mountford
at SPILL Festival of Performance 2014. Photo credit: Tom Mountford