Phelim McDermott, one of the directors of UK’s Improbable Theatre, is currently at Australia’s Sydney Opera House, co-ordinating workshops in preparation for the company’s large-scale outdoor spectacular, Sticky – involving fireworks, a 100-foot tower and miles of sticky tape – which opens the Sydney Festival tomorrow.
Although the company has previously used the sticky stuff to create puppetry and sets for smaller-scale productions, McDermott describes the creation of a four-storey tower using a crane and rolls of sticky tape as ‘a celebration of a ridiculous idea’ – an impossible dream for a building that has eventually been realised.
