The show that we're bringing to Edinburgh is called
'Moot Moot'
It's, sort of, a response to ideas of
loneliness and connection and communication.
We both play these two doppelgänger radio hosts
who are identical.
You are listening to Barry & Barry & Barry & Barry
Barry & The Barry Show.
Barry, Barry Show.
That's right, you're tuning into the Barry & Barry Show!
Quite early on in our research for this piece
we were getting a bit obsessed with, like,
debate shows on the radio
and we were thinking a lot at the time about the, sort of,
'cult of opinion,'
living in a time where you feel like you need to be, like,
giving an opinion and saying something and sharing
sort of, every detail of your life
and we actually came across these two radio DJs
from the '70s who were both called Barry
and we started to improvise a bit
with these personas that we created.
Has something happened to you today?
Or is something going to happen to you today?
Get in touch.
Yeah, yeah. Perhaps, perhaps something's
going to happen to you tomorrow,
and you're feeling a little bit nervous about it.
Are you someone who suffers with nerves or anxiety?
Get in touch, let's talk about it.
Yeah, maybe you're anxious about tomorrow
or even the day after tomorrow
or maybe you just see your future as
one day after the other, stretching off into infinity
that makes you feel a bit, a bit sad?
Well, get in touch.
Get in touch.
Are you feeling sad today?
Or have you ever felt sad?
Let's talk about it.
Get in touch.
Yes, sadness is an emotion
and what is your favourite emotion?
Get in touch.
Our experiences of living in this time,
where it feels like there's such a
saturation of broadcasting streams,
of places for you to voice your opinion,
and, actually, sort of, from the moment you wake up
to the moment you go to bed in the evening,
you're confronted with so much information.
Just Barry & Barry on the beach
with a big ball and a BBQ.
Oh yeah! We're on the beach with a BBQ, baby!
It's a beach ball, Barry, what do you think?
Yeah, Barry & Barry with a big beach ball
and a BBQ and a beer and a burger.
Aw! I like the sound of that, Barry!
Yeah, a beer and a burger and a BBQ
and a beach ball, bouncing back and forth.
Ah! Maybe Brighton?!
Brighton beach, yeah, yeah!
Barry & Barry at Brighton beach
with some busty babes in bikinis!
It's quite strictly timed
and we were interested in creating a performance
that felt very live; so we have a live task
which is to be filling the space in the show with words
and we have, sort of, these different rules about
how we are improvising with text throughout it
so, each night the show is different.
And it means that we're in a,
in a heightened state the whole way through.
It does feel like a bit of a challenge and it's, sort of, like,
once it starts, you're on this, sort of,
roller coaster ride together.
I think the audience are on that ride with you, as well.
Yeah, get in touch. Get in touch.
...mmm...
...get in touch...
...mmm, get in touch...
because, erm, well, otherwise, it's just...
...Barry & Barry.
It's not the easiest watch because it also, it, I think it
draws you in and then pushes you away quite quickly,
so there's...and that's something we,
we wanted to have this feeling of,
we're asking you what you think
and we're asking you to get in touch.
What's happening?
Get in touch! Get in touch!
About midway through our process,
we invited Yas Clarke in,
who's an amazing sound artist and sound designer
and, originally, we just got him in to look at some
voice manipulation for us
because we knew we wanted our voices
to be manipulated throughout.
But once he started showing us what you can do
with voice manipulation and, sort of,
all the amazing technology that he has,
we recognised that that could be a really
important element in the work and then we, sort of,
collaborated with him, basically, to continue making it...
...yeah, we've made, jingles and there's
really weird and interesting sound effects throughout.
And Yas is in the performance as well,
so it's all being, sort of, crafted live
and he's responding to what we're doing,
so, I think that gives it an interesting energy, as well,
which adds to the liveness of it
because we don't exactly know how he's going to
change what we've done or respond to what we've done.
Well, we spend all our time together, you and I.
Yeah, that's true.
And I always thought that meant
that we saw exactly the same.
Doesn't it?
But when I get home at the end of the day
and I think back about everything I've done,
all my memories are of you.
That sounds nice.