Remember Igor Mamonov, the absentee ballet dancer?

There’s a sequel.

Ms jb, feeling that her friend Ingrid (Frank the Potter‘s missus) had been hard done by in missing Act 2, schemed with famous potter and friend Steve Fullmer – he won the prestigious Fletcher Challenge award twice – to provide adequate compensation.

This is it.

Click on the image for more detail and you’ll see the stage of the theatre, draped with curtains and Igor, having done a runner, sitting stage right stark naked but for his ballet shoes with a firm grip on a bottle, the assumed reason for his absence.

In the audience, you’ll see 2 people turned towards the viewer.

That’d be Ingrid and Ms jb.

Here’s Steve telling his story
https://vimeo.com/141982320

And here’s Ingrid getting all emotional on inspection. The words “crazy”, “amazing”, “wunderbar” feature quite frequently….
https://vimeo.com/141982321

30 Jun This entry was published on 30 June, 2008 at 13:00 and is filed under Culture, Mainz. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.