Forkbeard - IB Theatre - Collaborative Project (first assessment 2024)

Forkbeard Fantasy

Forkbeard Fantasy
From the early 1970s, Forkbeard created multi-media performances, live theatre shows, numerous films, animations, puppetry, poetry, mechanical sculptures, books, interactive exhibitions, courses, and workshops with “good humor and spirit of anarchic disrespect.” Forkbeard is no longer creating new work, but you can still browse their films, pictures, cartoons and links on this site.

Chris Britton on Forkbeard Fantasy (Interview) - Digital Theatre+

Chris Britton on Forkbeard Fantasy (Interview) - Digital Theatre+
(35 minutes) "In a way, it wasn’t meant to stimulate an audience; it was meant to annoy them actually, but because of our particular way of performing, it did have quite a comical effect." Chris Britton discusses Forkbeard Fantasy, a company that paved the way for experimental performance artists of the 1970s.

Charting the development of their process, Britton unpacks the company’s foundation, influences and journey from street to multimedia theatre.

Boxmanship

(3:06) The art of boxkeeping

The Great British Square Dance - 1978

(3:06) Street theatre 1978

The Great British Square Dance June 2012

(1:56) A rare outing for the Square Dancers at Diamond Geezer Mini-Fest 35 years on!

Forkbeard Fantasy presentation

(2:36) Crossing the celluloid divide demonstration

Exeter Cathedral Projection 2012

(3:10) "Evolumental' : Animated projection on Exeter Cathedral as part of the 2012 Animated Exeter festival

"The Colour Of Nonsense" Trailer.mov

(3:20) Highlights from Forkbeard Fantasy's 2010 show: a hilarious comedy about the Art World."Brilliantly funny and full of insane imagination" The Guardian ****

IB Theatre - Collaborative Project (first assessment 2024): Forkbeard