An Experiment in Contraprojection

This show starred the Brittonionis and Ed’s first stage role as Mr Jobling, their grumpy projectionist. Determined to try out a new system of breaking down The Celluloid Divide and thus connect the real with the reel, the Brittonionis introduce the monstrous Eisenstein Projector Mark 2. Needless to say it all goes terribly wrong and the brothers find themselves endlessly multiplying in ever-diminishing versions of their real selves – a nightmare of alter-egos. The set , which opened like a book, revealed a film world in a central screen identical to the one on stage, in and out of which the increasingly confused brothers found themselves looping and refracting. This show was perhaps the most widely travelled taking us, over the ensuing few years, to Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Poland, Canada and all over Europe.