Scallywagitis.

Dear Friends, Fans, Independent Observers and Blogoshpere Junkies,

Scallywag Theatre is thrilled to announce the new and shiny Super Highway of exciting projects that stretches from the future, through this bubbling present and into our glorious past. Following the brief hiatus in Global Touring which resulted from the untimely and tragic passing of our former agent (well, she dead to me) Scallywag Theatre diversified, re-focused, strengthened our core-values and has risen like a fiery phoenix from the ashes of the economic/cultural Shitegeist.

Driving this re-birth - with the sun-roof open and the hand-brake off while she bangin' on da radio - is the newest member of the Scallywag family, the fabulous Marijana Mikolcic. Working as agent/producer/PR guru and general Rock Star, Scallywag Theatre welcomes Marijana to it's ample but firm bosom with joy and high hopes. She is now the public face and strategic mind behind Scallywag, and while the honeymoon lasts I believe that she'll be a massive success.

The brightest star on the firmament of Scallywag Theatre's near-future galaxy is the upcoming trip to Tallinn, Estonia, to complete work on a new production for the amazing NUKU Theatre there. The new show STICKY will premier in the superb TREFF festival on June 6, and I urge each and every one of you to get to Tallinn on that weekend for one of the best theatre festivals that happens anywhere in the world. I shit you not. TREFF flippin ROCKS.

Watch This Space as More Exciting News is immanent and will shortly bubble it's way from my twisted fantasy, through the filter of Social Media and infect your soul with Scallywagitis.

Aw, my frickin' head! Sweetness...

After more than three months (I really must find a way to work faster...) the puppet for the Meekers is finally finished!

Sweet dreams, kids...

Foam Rubber Scissors.

Dearest Friends Of Scallywag Theatre,

Despite having to compete with the band in the next tent, STAN was a roaring success in Zomerparkfeest in Venlo. Thanks to all of the Festival people for looking after us.

Meanwhile, I'm still in puppet-making-mode, and up to my eyeballs in foam rubber. The latest puppet is for the new show that Duda is making, this time for my old friends The Meek. I'm in the final stretch now and only have hands, feet and painting to do. (Who am I kidding? That ain't "only".) Anyway, have a peak at the sneak preview I've posted with this posting.

Coming up are stints making puppets in Bulgaria and Norway, and an option for Italy next Summer. Nice. Keep you posted.

PEACE&PUPPETSjim

Unifying my Corporate Identity. Or sumfink.

As Facebook continues to dominate all things Social Media, I'm attempting to jump on the bandwagon rather than be left behind. Hence this Facebook plugin. Not sure exactly what it does or why I need it, though...

Here comes STAN (again).

Just when you thought it was safe to visit summer festivals, STAN returns to Zommerparkfeest in Venlo on August 13 at 15.15. See www.zommerparkfeest.nl for details.

Finally finished the last puppet for Duda Paiva's new show for the Estonian State Puppet Theatre, Detox The Dummy. I spent the best part of the past 4 months making 4 monkeys and a giant gorilla head for Detox. That's a lot of monkeying around.

Voice over work, kids.

Little Rockin' Roger and his Magic Glass Guitar. http://www.littlerockinroger.com/

There's a nice teaser on the site.

Here's a demo from my Voice123 profile -



Powered by Voice123 - Voiceover

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, I recently got an email from my former agent, with an option on a show at the Zomerparkfeest in Venlo on August 6th. I spent a day trying and failing to burn a dvd for the festival, and in the end reverted to uploading some scenes from STAN onto Youtube. I'll attempt to put the videos on this blog, but in case I don't manage, here's the links -

looking at my cock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkvDmgbbQdY

behind you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgwXyw9UsNY

Holes -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feto2nbGaLA

Look into my eyes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6CsWqJMgVc

Alongside all of that, I've been very busy making puppets for my dear friend and long time collaborator Duda de Paiva. http://www.dudapaiva.com I made the puppets for Bastard, and have almost finished work on five monkeys for his new production Detox the Dummy for the Estonian State Puppet Theatre.

And last week I started work on a research project with Mor Shani at Dans Ateliers, in which I'm working mostly with text, but also dancing around a bit. The circle is now square. Or sumfink.

PEACEjim

Whore.

I have officially started work on the eagerly anticipated new show, Whore. This will be my first foray into table puppetry (which as the name suggests is puppets on a table on stage, me sat behind it) and is a peek into the life of prostitute Fifi La Bouche and her clients.

The process has just begun, so I'm busy drafting blurbs for subsidy requests, experimenting with making puppets of a scale suitable for the table-puppetry format and casting around for a producer.

I've uploaded a sneak preview of a puppet that (I hope) is the right size for this show. Not sure what character he is yet, or if he will even make it into the show. His provisional name is Fred. He might be a melancholy policeman. Or not.