Doppelgangster’s TITANIC rips up the screenplay from James Cameron’s 1997 epic Hollywood tear-jerker and a maelstrom of other sources including the Titanic DVD Special Features Disk and eye-witness, survivor accounts of people who actually saw the film at the movies.
Risks include: electrocution, drowning, hypothermia, car crash, falling from a height, blunt force trauma, limb severance / loss of limbs, suffocation, noise-induced hearing damage, early 20th Century political spin, bureaucratic confusion, and public anxiety!
Doppelgangster’s TITANIC is about ‘educated guesses’, ‘operational matters’ and the impossible pursuit of ‘truth’. This most grand spectacle is staged entirely from a shipping container and stars Australian enfant terrible Tobias Manderson-Galvin (MKA | Theatre of New Writing) as Titanic Director Cameron; bon vivant and raconteur Dr Tom Payne (Silver Rocket Club, Hydrocitizens) as handsome, though slightly aged, Leonardo DiCaprio; the shipping container as ‘Rose’, and all accompanied by a recorded and amplified score by Jules ‘Sea Dog’ Pascoe. First class seats available.
WARNING
Yes it is.
DURATION
75minutes
FOR THE AUDIENCE
Doppelgangster’s TITANIC takes place outdoors.
Creators & Performers
Dr Tom ‘Dr Tom Payne’ Payne (Hydrocitizens, the Silver Rocket Club)
Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin (Hitlerhoff, The Economist)
Sound Design & Composition
Jules Pascoe (JazzParty, Clairey Browne and the Bangin Raquetters, Jaala, Husky)
Guest Performers
Rachel Helena Walsh (Paris, Cardiff)
HighSpeed Wilson (Cardiff)
Research & Development participants have included
Llandinam | Sound by Matt Wright, Performances by Rhiannon White, Nia Griffiths, Ellen Groves & a special performance as ‘Celine Dion’ by Jimin Lim
MELBOURNE
30 June 01, 07, 08, 09 July
Hot!Hot!Hot! Festival,
presented by MKA | Theatre of New Writing and SiteWorks
ABERYSTWYTH
07+16 Mar 2016
The Dylan Thomas Memorial Shipping Container Theatre, SITE 2 / SAFLE 2 Festival | Aberystwyth Arts Centre
PARIS
ArtCOP21 | La Generale
09 Dec 2015
14, av. Parmentier Paris XIe – M° Voltaire.
CARDIFF
Experimentica | Chapter Arts
Supported by National Theatre Wales/ WalesLab, thanks to Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Manderson-Galvin’s inclusion was supported by ArtStart by the Australia Council of the Arts.
The work was further developed through an informal attachment of Manderson-Galvin to the Monash University Container Festival.
REVIEW of ‘Doppelgangster’s TITANIC’ | The Age 01 July 2016
REVIEW of ‘Doppelgangster’s TITANIC’ | The Music 01 July 2016
INTERVIEW with Doppelgangster | Daily Review 02 Dec 2015
CARDIFF, 2015
Experimentica festival in association with Chapter Arts, thanks to Arts Council Wales and Welsh National Lottery.
PARIS, 2015
for ArtCOP21, the cultural response to the UN climate talks, supported by Wales Arts International (the international arm of Arts Council Wales); La Generale, and the City of Paris.
ABERYSTWYTH, 2016
Site2/Safle2 Festival in association with Aberystwyth Arts Centre, supported by Arts Council Wales, Welsh National Lottery, Aberystwyth University, and Dylan Thomas Cranes.