This Christmas - from Friday 19 December 2008 to Sunday 11 January 2009 - Southbank Centre presents LOST AND FOUND ORCHESTRA, the new show from the creators of STOMP (the hit show seen by over 12 million people in 42 countries since its beginnings in 1991).
Featuring a 50-strong orchestra of actors, dancers, musicians, singers and classically-trained instrumentalists, all playing found and invented instruments, LOST AND FOUND ORCHESTRA at the Royal Festival Hall will be the most entertaining, uplifting and unusual new show in London this Christmas.
Celebrating the ingenious concept of creating new instruments from found objects, LOST AND FOUND ORCHESTRA are part of a long tradition that ranges from the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, who play celeriac bongos and carrot recorders; and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, who famously played the trouser press, to American composer Harry Partch, who created instruments from scratch (including the Mazda Marimba, made of lightbulbs).
With a timpani section of soup cauldrons, violins replaced by saws and traffic cones becoming trombones, LOST AND FOUND ORCHESTRA provides an emphatic answer to the question, if STOMP were just the rhythm section, what on earth would the whole orchestra sound like? Throw in swinging aerial artists banging six-foot long rubber tubes, flying filing cabinets, performing shopping trolleys, musical vacuum cleaners and a brass bed bass and you have the makings of an unmissable Christmas show for audiences of all ages.
LOST AND FOUND ORCHESTRA premiered in 2005 at the Brighton Festival, which commissioned STOMP's directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas to create an ambitious and experimental new work to celebrate the festival's 40th birthday. Following standing ovations and five-star reviews, LOST AND FOUND ORCHESTRA went on to perform a record-breaking run at the Sydney Festival in 2006. Having seen STOMP become a worldwide phenomenon, including a six year run in London's West End, Luke and Steve are thrilled to be bringing their latest hit to Southbank Centre.
Jude Kelly, Artistic Director, Southbank Centre said: 'We are all very excited and delighted that the creators of STOMP are bringing their latest visionary project – LOST AND FOUND ORCHESTRA - to Southbank Centre this Christmas. They are kindred spirits. We celebrate their sense of adventure, admire their boldness and revel in the sheer joy with which they approach every new project.' -- www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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