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| Skylarking : (n) lark that soars while singing, (vi) (w. pun on LARK, and perh. of naut. orig. w. ref. to clambering about rigging), frolic, play tricks or practical jokes, ballyrag, tomfoolery. Oxford English Dictionary 1990 edition. |
| skylarking inc no.1 |
"Skylarking", was part of the Hackney Empire Centenary celebrations. I was invited as one of a group of Artists to convert a theatre box into an installation piece. A bit of fun on my part for this zero budget work with the aim of evoking the twin lives of the Empire as both cinema & theatre with humour. I literally took the 'box' theme to the limit stacking locally found disused cardboard boxes, which I individually painted black and yellow gloss to the ceiling in the darkened space;    then, each audience member was handed an usherette style torch to discover the contents of the room, their beam of light slowly revealing a series of shakespearean curses while their feet triggered a funky version of the Pearl & Dean advert signature tune intermixed with a slurring distorted version of the national anthem as was historically played at the end of each performance. |
