Twonkey’s Soft December Night in Tallahassee 🎡🧚♀️🌙 @twonkeyverse
Award-winning fringe firebrand Paul Vickers returns to Prague with another wildly strange chapter from the Twonkey universe. This time, Twonkey’s widow Twonketta leads audiences into a chaotic fairground adventure filled with mischievous fairies, hypnosis and murderous twists. ⚡🎠
Hidden beneath the Helter Skelter, enchanted creatures plot to reclaim the valley that was stolen from them before bulldozers arrived to build a theme park. What follows is bizarre, darkly funny and completely unpredictable, somewhere between a fever dream and a fairytale gone very wrong...
Critics have called Paul Vickers “The Fringe’s very own David Lynch” and “the most creative crazy in show business.”
📅 27.05. 21:45–22:45
📅 29.05. 17:00–18:00
📅 30.05. 18:45–19:45
📍 @misenskafe
🌍 Easy English
Step into the strange world of Twonkey… if you dare 🎟️✨➡️ Tickets are on sale now. Link in bio.
Paul Vickers and the Leg 🦵 are playing Leith Depot on the 20th of December,
We are on in the afternoon it’s an all day fuzz bat thing :
Here’s the amended running order + set times.
Doors at 1:30pm.
1:45 to 2:25pm-Housekind
2:40 to 3:20pm-Puppet Midnight & Friends
3:35 to 4:15pm-Main Primate
4:30 to 5:10pm-Paul Vickers & The Leg
Break for food etc
Doors at 7pm
7:10 to 7:50pm-Faith Eliott
8:00 to 8:40pm-Nyla
8:55 to 9:35pm-Vibrator
9:50 to 10:30pm-Sloth Metropolis
★★★★
Twonkey’s dead! He succumbed after eating a tin of contaminated condensed milk, or so his Widow Twonketta tells us!
Paul Vicker’s Twonkey narrative has coursed through the Edinburgh Fringe for 15 years now! In doing so, he has picked up numerous awards and a loyal cult audience. The reason being is that Paul is a committed performer, who crafts his shows like doll’s houses – there isn’t a cynical P.R stunt angled bone in his body!
For the uninitiated, a Twonkey show is a collage of song, stories and puppetry – ostensibly conveying some grand tale; this year it’s about Twonketta’s fairground, which has fallen on hard times, her only hope is to sabotage the rival fairground ride, the eponymous Zip Wire to Zanzibar. But this conceit is an afterthought to the stories and songs that erupt out of this volcano of considered chaos.
It would be a disservice to Paul to describe his act as just ‘crazy, off-the-wall’, his storytelling tradition is as rich as vaudeville, and it’s his Northern idiosyncrasies that make the language rich.
An example of this is the introduction of ‘Cheeky Chops’ a large felt fly that spies on everyone. The accompanying song is wonderful.
I feel that Paul deserves a better venue. Although his show can rely on the buzzing atmosphere of a cabaret bar’s backroom, it suffers when audiences are too rowdy. Some of his asides are detailed and complex; breathy monologues about Cumbernauld and magic snails are lost amongst the audiences ribaldry. Still Twonketta is a pro, and never lets anything get in the way of a good time.
Twonkey’s Zip Wire to Zanzibar is on at the Other Room at Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly until August 24th
#edfringe #edfringe25
Twonkey's Zip Wire To Zanzibar
★★★★☆
Dragonfly (Venue 414)
There can be many reasons to love a comedy show: it is witty, full of jokes, cleverly political. But Twonkey's shows are none of these things. He is the closest we have to a comedy Salvador Dali, creating surreal worlds, and populating his with a motley collection of moth eaten puppets.
Such is the power of the Twonkeyverse to draw you in that I spend quite a lot of the show thinking, despite the devastating news of Twonkey's death in a contaminated tinned-product-related tragedy being broken to us early on, that perhaps the great man is not dead, but in the grip of a life-changing gender identity crisis. However Twonketta, his 'widow', is an unexpectable joy to spend an hour with. She handles the puppets – old favourites and exciting newcomers – with aplomb. OK maybe not a full plomb, but at least a half plomb. She is still getting used to the stilettos. With her leading the way we get dastardly deeds at the fairground, a rollercoaster catastrophe, Steve's balls and fascinating facts about the origins of Cumbernauld.
For frequent flyers in the Twonkeyverse, don't worry, she inherits the Transylvanian Finger Fantasies and the Ship's Wheel. However tonight's gathering gets a never to be forgotten moment of onstage inspiration. “This is improvised,” says Twonketta, as she removes her knickers to place on the wheel, having forgotten the prop pair.
Twonkey is dead. Long live Twonketta.
Kate Copstick The Scotsman
PX4M0020 -- WINTER AT BUTTERFLY LAKE
by
PAUL VICKERS AND THE LEG
@twonkeyverse@the_leg_band
OUT TODAY
on all the streaming platforms you can imagine
link to order in bio
fancy cover art by @artworkbyjamesmetcalfe
all other credits on second slide
funny "butterfly effect" vinyl that you can own on slides 3 & 4
the last three tracks have been floating about the internet for a couple months
hopefully you'll enjoy them in a different context
my personal favorite is ERIC. SLOW RUNS THE FOX & BUILD A MUSEUM are up there too
thanx 2 @creativescots of helping its making
New single by Paul Vickers and The Leg out today.
Contents of the Earth from the upcoming album Winter at Butterfly Lake.
Available on all the usual DSPs.
We've also unlocked the album version as well, on bandcamp where you can also pre-order the record. Link in bio.
It's one of the catchier songs, but I appreciate how they've left in the sound of a string ensemble imitating a capsizing boat. Through most of the verses. Makes you a bit queasy.
"Contents of the Earth is saying to someone, don't underestimate your value. Ever." - Paul
