Doppelgangster’s Titanic

Doppelgangster’s

TITANIC

A show that rips up all the rules.
C. WOODHEAD - THE AGE
5 Stars! You owe yourself to see it!
JAMES DANIEL - THE MUSIC
A one hour tour de force
Julie McNicholls Vale, CAMBRIAN NEWS
One Star. Totally disrespectful to the victims of the tragedy.
J.Ellis - thesprout.co.uk
A heroic performance
Emma Geliot - Editor, CCQ Magazine
Amazing.
'Oscar' - Aged Three
I didn’t know Tom could act
- John McGrath, National Theatre Wales (Artistic Director)
Really exciting… strong individual voices.
- John McGrath, National Theatre Wales (Artistic Director)
You’ve woken all the neighbours.
- Simon Coates, National Theatre Wales (Creative Associate)

Doppelgangster’s TITANIC rips up the screenplay from James Cameron’s 1997 epic Hollywood tear-jerker and a maelstrom of other sources including the Titanic DVD Special Features Disk and eye-witness, survivor accounts of people who actually saw the film at the movies.

Risks include: electrocution, drowning, hypothermia, car crash, falling from a height, blunt force trauma, limb severance / loss of limbs, suffocation, noise-induced hearing damage, early 20th Century political spin, bureaucratic confusion, and public anxiety!

Doppelgangster’s TITANIC is about ‘educated guesses’, ‘operational matters’ and the impossible pursuit of ‘truth’. This most grand spectacle is staged entirely from a shipping container and stars Australian enfant terrible Tobias Manderson-Galvin (MKA | Theatre of New Writing) as Titanic Director Cameron; bon vivant and raconteur Dr Tom Payne (Silver Rocket Club, Hydrocitizens) as handsome, though slightly aged, Leonardo DiCaprio; the shipping container as ‘Rose’, and all accompanied by a recorded and amplified score by Jules ‘Sea Dog’ Pascoe. First class seats available.

CREDITS

Creators & Performers
Dr Tom ‘Dr Tom Payne’ Payne (Hydrocitizens, the Silver Rocket Club)
Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin (Hitlerhoff, The Economist)

Sound Design & Composition
Jules Pascoe (JazzParty, Clairey Browne and the Bangin Raquetters, Jaala, Husky)

Guest Performers
Rachel Helena Walsh (Paris, Cardiff)
HighSpeed Wilson (Cardiff)

Research & Development participants have included
Llandinam | Sound by Matt Wright, Performances by Rhiannon White, Nia Griffiths, Ellen Groves & a special performance as ‘Celine Dion’ by Jimin Lim

GENERAL INFO

WARNING
Yes it is.
DURATION
75minutes
FOR THE AUDIENCE
Doppelgangster’s TITANIC takes place outdoors.

PREVIOUSLY

MELBOURNE ’16
30 June 01, 07, 08, 09 July
Hot!Hot!Hot! Festival,
presented by MKA | Theatre of New Writing and SiteWorks

ABERYSTWYTH ’16
07+16 Mar 2016
The Dylan Thomas Memorial Shipping Container Theatre, SITE 2 / SAFLE 2 Festival | Aberystwyth Arts Centre

PARIS ’15
ArtCOP21 | La Generale
09 Dec 2015
14, av. Parmentier Paris XIe – M° Voltaire.

CARDIFF ’15
Experimentica | Chapter Arts

PRESS

INTERVIEW with Doppelgangster | Daily Review 02 Dec 2015

NEWS on ‘Doppelgangster’s TITANIC’ | Cambrian News 10 Mar 2016

REVIEWS

REVIEW of ‘Doppelgangster’s TITANIC’ | The Age 01 July 2016

REVIEW of ‘Doppelgangster’s TITANIC’ | The Music 01 July 2016

REVIEW of ‘Doppelgangster’s TITANIC’ | Cambrian News 24 Mar 2016

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DEVELOPMENT, 2015

First supported by National Theatre Wales/WalesLab SummerCamp 2015, thanks to Esmee Fairbairn Foundation; Manderson-Galvin’s inclusion was supported by ArtStart by the Australia Council of the Arts. The work was further developed through an informal attachment of Manderson-Galvin to the Monash University Container Festival.

CARDIFF, 2015

Experimentica festival in association with Chapter Arts, thanks to Arts Council Wales and Welsh National Lottery.

PARIS, 2015

for ArtCOP21, the cultural response to the UN climate talks, supported by Wales Arts International (the international arm of Arts Council Wales); La Generale, and the City of Paris.

ABERYSTWYTH, 2016

Site2/Safle2 Festival in association with Aberystwyth Arts Centre, supported by Arts Council Wales, Welsh National Lottery, Aberystwyth University, and Dylan Thomas Cranes.