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Oh I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside!
Writer, Director, Designer, Maker, Performer
Oh I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside!
Porters Studio Space
S4C Studio, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Writers - Evan Stead & Robin O'Connor Lowe
Directors - Evan Stead & Robin O'Connor Lowe
Designers - Evan Stead & Robin O'Connor Lowe
Makers - Evan Stead & Robin O'Connor Lowe
Performers - Evan Stead & Robin O'Connor Lowe
Photographers - Evan Stead, Robin O'Connor Lowe & Perrin Dunn
'Oh I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside!' is a twenty minute long wearable art, puppetry and drag show set on a 1920's British beach. The show was devised, directed, designed, made and performed by myself and Robin O'Connor Lowe. The show featured many original characters such as 'Madame Whippy', 'Lady Gannet', 'Lady Loon' and many more. For the performance I made two swimming caps, two headpieces inspired by the markings of seabirds combined with art deco motifs, a large fish and a large seagull head mask.
Research and Inspiration
Design Collages and Drawings
Seagull Production Photos
Photographs by Perrin Dunn & Robin O'Connor Lowe
Making the Seagull Head
Lady Loon and Lady Gannet production phots
Making the Headpieces
Swimming ladies
Making the Swimming caps
Performance at Porters bar
After our performance in the S4C studio in the December of 2024, Robin & I later went on in the March of 2025 to perform our show again at 'Porters' a small bar in Cardiff. We were lucky enough to perform in their newly opened theater space, and had a wonderful evening. Unlike the show we performed in the S4C studio, this performance was open to the public, with the capacity for an audience of 60, of which we sold 60 tickets! We also performed alongside Beanpig puppets, Chaos corner puppets, Nico Venables & Apple Ding
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