SharpWire

Outdoor Theatre

Outdoor Theatre

The union of the cellist/singer/theatre performer Matthew Sharp, writer/composer Pete M Wyer and executive producer Fiona O'Mahony forms SharpWire. Having worked with the BBC, the National Theatre and the Young Vic amongst others, SharpWire create startlingly original, spellbinding excursions into unchartered music theatre territory that have been acclaimed around the world. Expect ravishing music, engaging and entrancing narrative, sonic and visual wizardry and virtuoso performance. It was quoted as “An intoxicating and intimate passion play of sound, song, movement, and video” by The Guardian.

SharpWire will be presenting two performances for Latitude 2009. ‘Johnny’s Midnight Goggles’ (Saturday) is a one-man operatic thriller written and composed by Pete M. Wyer and performed by Matthew Sharp. The central character Johnny has been kidnapped; the Black Camel of Takrilakastan has shown up and a mysterious pair of goggles has opened a portal to another world. Midnight is fast approaching and the chase is on to rescue Johnny. A mind and genre-melting explosion of story-telling.

The sequel from SharpWire, ‘Finkelstein’s Castle’, (Sunday) is yet another one-man operatic romp; an epic, tongue-in-cheek, Sherlock Holmes ‘whodunnit’, that takes us from deserted castles in Scotland to sinister hydro-demolition operations in New York via the half-submerged town of Gallumphing-on-Twee. What dastardly plans for world domination has Johnny stumbled upon this time? And will a pair of wellington boots be enough to save him from the castle where people enter but no-one EVER returns? The Telegraph hailed SharpWire and Matthew Sharp as an “extraordinary cellist, virile bass-baritone, compelling actor - Sharp has astonishingly comprehensive versatility.”