Sticky

A spectacular collaboration between Improbable and The World Famous.

As darkness falls, an expectant silence is gently ripped by a symphonic crackle of static as roll after roll of sticky tape is pulled and twisted out from the shadows - drawing lines of light that cut the space and quiver in the air.

High above, a winged figure treads the sky, falters, and then falls, into a heaving carcass of translucent spidery limbs. A huge structure is wrenched upwards from out of the ground, forged with fire, machinery and smoke. Hundreds of sparklers burst into life as it transforms before our eyes into a beautiful tower of filigree pinnacles and leaf veined windows, shimmering with fireworks against the backdrop of the night sky.

STICKY developed from a workshop, which happened on 1 August 1998 as part of the Stockton Riverside Festival. Its first full performance was in Glasgow on 30 May 1999. It has toured throughout the UK and Australia, and has also visited Portugal, Switzerland and New Zealand.

Quite a few different places around the world are interested in presenting STICKY, which is currently available. We have not got anything confirmed yet but as soon as we do we will put the dates in here.

Improbable with The World Famous

Directors for Improbable
Julian Crouch, Lee Simpson, Phelim McDermott

Directors for The World Famous
Greg Woods and Mike Roberts

The Creative Team
Rob Thirtle, Phil Eddols, Graeme Gilmour, Sarah-Jean Couzens, Phil Supple, Geoff Southall, Bruce Luckhurst, Gill Roughley, Peter Williams

Production Management
Jon Linstrum and Helen Maquire

Photographs on website for STICKY by:
Nick Read, 2001 and Richard Haughton, 2003; illustrations by Julian Crouch, 2001