Lion vs The Little People is a documentary comedy about the greatest internet hoax of all time. In 2005, a hoax news post masquerading as a bonafide BBC news website article, announced a fight had taken place between a lion and an army of 42 fighting dwarfs. The hoax spread like wild fire across the internet before eventually being accepted to be fake. While the article’s veracity has been diminished, the myth lives on in this outrageous deadpan comedy.
This live performance is set in a virtual midsummer forest. Under the shadow of gathering clouds at dusk, lit by the glimmer of fireflies, Puck acts as the guide. Audiences are invited to explore the forest from the canopy of the trees to the roots, meet the sprites, Cobweb, Mustardseed, Peaseblossom and Moth, and take an extraordinary journey into the eye of a cataclysmic storm. Together with Puck they must regrow the forest before the dawn. When day breaks, the spell breaks.
Simon, a traumatised young man who can glimpse the future must do anything to stop a killer, even if it means being the murderer’s final victim. He hires Steve, an ex-SAS soldier but their plan goes awry.
Michael Smiley plays a disaffected reader who seeks solace in the local library. But when he finds random passages underlined in a book his irritation with life builds to a rage. Discovering the identity of the defacer he embarks on a twisted mission of revenge.
Neil (Paul Quinn) has his habits he drinks too much and smokes too much. He also kills too many women. In a city of millions, who will notice? But someone has, a tape is sent to Neil with footage of his brutal violence. Who has been following him and what will they do with this information? Stark (Jamie Jack Gordon) returns home after investigating another crime scene, perhaps he can shed light on the growing number of corpses found suffocated. Heather (Margaret Ann Bain) has a violent boyfriend an unfulfilling job and her brother is in a critical condition in hospital. She is reaching breaking point and her fragile state of mind is threatening to spiral into powerful rage. So look this way for a while. This story revolves around the dark bonds that link seemingly disparate characters and the horrific crimes committed when no one is really looking. Self-preservation is the link between them but similar interests do not always lead to making friends when the goal is making ugly.
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