AVANTI DISPLAY
Mr Lucky’s Party - Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th June  
During a tea party a couple begin a celebration and party hats, even a cake, appear, however with each course the weather worsens, the downpour increases and their mood blackens.


Performed to an evocative soundtrack with no text, this show is meticulous to character and detail. In typical Avanti style it concludes with a bizarre, spectacular and unexpected twist.
Conceived and devised by Bill Palmer, Trevor Stuart, and Helen Statman.


Photos: Paul Hermann

BOOTWORKS
Little Box of Horrors - Saturday 19th June
Experience a terrifying nightmare from your own intimate perspective. Are little girls to be trusted? Are you watching or being watched? See the performers dart, creep and shift into position bringing the sinister tale of jealousy, revenge and murder to life. Step inside if you dare…


Photo: Robert Daniels

What is the secret of room 616? It’s the question raised in Bootworks’ Little Box of Horrors, a clever little show that is an intimate, scary experience for an audience of one and simultaneously a spectacle for many. Anyone who has ever observed a show from backstage will know that it is often as entertaining to see how the illusion is constructed as it is to watch the illusion itself. Bootworks allows you to do both: watch it from outside the box, and it is rather comic; watch it from inside the box, and you feel as if you have fallen into Psycho.
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 06 July 2009

Warning: (14+ only) this show is not suitable for children; it contains scenes which some audience members might find disturbing. Although the wider public performance surrounding the box is suitable for all ages.

Une Boite Andalouse - Sunday 20th June
Having travelled to the moon, defeated invading Martians, wrestled giant rubber sharks and fought ‘bullet time’ with Agent Smith,  Bootworks Theatre embark on their most surreal adventure yet...


Photo: Mathias Friedrich

The moon appears in the night sky, a man sharpens his razor, an eye slices open and nothing again is as it seems. Keep up with the fast paced, bizarre medley with more than a nod to the black and white classics. A reworking of Dali and Bunuel’s masterpiece; Un Chien Andalou, an egg swallowing, ant crawling, horse-dragging treat.

HOODWINK
Pleasure Garden - Saturday 19th June  
It is an intimate performance in a formal garden. Audiences glimpse the innocent moments of Adam’s first bite of the apple, through love letters and peacocks to the thunderous age of steam. Groups are escorted into the garden for approximately 15 minutes for bees, blossom, extravagant characters and elegant comedy.


Pleasure Garden was commissioned by Henley Festival and Stockton International Riverside Festival.


Photos: Stephanie Jalland

Leap of Faith - Sunday 20th June
Celebration of the human aspiration to fly: paper wings, balloons, feathers, and flying monks. Elegant comedy, music and extraordinary visual effects. An uplifting show suitable for all ages.

I was delighted to see your new show, Pleasure Garden, cleverly thought out and charmingly executed.  The show carries all the Hoodwink hallmarks: attention to detail, rounded characters, English witticisms and charismatic performances.
Caterina Loriggio, The National Theatre.